Companies are having their best earnings season in nearly 2 years : money

[–] lettruthout 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They’re going to share those good earnings with their employees, right?

[–] IamLost 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No, silly, they must layoff 10% of their employees so the CEO can get a huge bonus.

Edit: Seriously, the "cost cutting" is literally layoffs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Anyone who owns shares of the S&P 500 will benefit. It may be the most common stock investment fund in small portfolios.

If your company has a 401k match program, make sure you max it out. It's free money (the match) and you can invest in the S&P 500 through any 401k or IRA.

[–] EvilEyedPanda 2 points 6 months ago

Meanwhile I got laidoff, and am really not sure I'm gonna be able to keep my house.

[+] yeahiknow3 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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[–] Senshi 5 points 6 months ago

What? That makes no sense at all.

If profits go up, taxes should go up. Much like with income, where higher income equals higher taxes.

Companies being more efficient is great, as long as the resulting increased profits are reinvested into the economy. Either by expanding/investing, which results in more jobs on other areas, but decreases profit. Or by increasing wages for the remaining workforce, increasing disposable income which then gets reinvested broadly by consumerism.

Or by paying taxes, thus ( in theory) redistributing it to the general populace, as taxes are used for general expenses.

The only thing that should not happen is the increased profits only translating into multi million dollar bonuses for the leadership.

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