But companies don't always chase profit.
They can also chase growth and the appearance of a company that could or will make money one day. Ex Uber when it first came out and destroyed the taxi industry practically overnight.
Valve might not be a publically traded company, but it sti has shareholders. Some of those shareholders still want Valve to increase value, etc.
The difference is that valve has a songle large share holder who seems to just not give a fuck about those pressures. While most (all) publically traded companies crumble and fall to that pressure.
The US won't. The EU probably will.
Read up on the civil rights movements or how women got the right to vote.
Protests 100% work
You can, but it requires more skill and more effort.
Skill and effort are often in high demand and low supply.
I could... survive this layout.
But when selling a house, you want to appeal to as many as possible. And this kitchen does not have wide appeal.
Oh, they care.
They got your money one way, and now their getting it another way!
Make the fine the last 10 years of activision/blizzard gross profits.
Make the fuckers bleed.
Penalty? Don't you mean just another cost of doing business?
I always liked the lens of Harry as a jock
Congratulations on being old e ough to buy property when it was cheap.
For the rest of us, we all adapted to the low interest post-08 world. Now, we need to adapt to the higher interest post-21 world.
That makes no sense.
The only difference between a public company and a private company (in this sense) is how liquid the asset is, said another way, how easy it is to enter or exit the position, and how regularly the holdings value is recalculated.
I could buy 100k of valve stock of someone tomorrow, and then find myself wishing I'd bought NVIDIA. I could buy NVIDIA tomorrow, and it could crash and I could wish I'd bought in to Valve.