[Hammershaft]

Their method of making money has directly contributed to a nosedive in the quality of their products. I frankly consider this a kind of rarely documented market failure.

[jimmyvalmer]

There's just one robust metric for "quality," and that's market cap, which is generally tied to current and future profits.

[Hammershaft]

By what reasoning?

[ngokevin]

Brainwashed capitalism reasoning :D

(America at least) conditioned to think market caps and stock markets and GDP are the only meaningful metric.