[_heimdall]

Once a public company gets large enough the stock itself is their product.

It really doesn't matter much what the company produces PR how well it manages its org, they just need to keep producing numbers in a quarterly earning report that few even read so a few clips can make a headline and bolster the stock.

[eru]

You can short Google.

[_heimdall]

Sure, though my point was only that the stock is the product when large enough. Nothing stops you from betting for or against the stock

[eru]

The stock isn't anymore the product than bonds are the product.

[_heimdall]

Sure, though the market cap of a company should be a much higher value than their outstanding bonds

Either way, the primary purpose of the company is to produce paper for financial services