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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
When a business becomes successful and those who own it/run it become reliant on the cash flow, it's extremely difficult to NOT focus entirely on the bottom line. But of course you have to do things that are counter-bottom line at times to ebb and flow with the times. But the pressure builds to keep that number where it's at (and growing). It's like how Sly described it. It's human nature. It's a cycle.
Thing is, those companies/people who are truly successful know they cannot be so short-sighted and reactionary. That's the path to destruction.
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It's actually what happens when "investors" are involved. It's a plague which runs amok throughout the business world these days.. Investors and large stock holders expect that there must always be a rise in income year after year. Usually it gets to a point, where the only way to keep those continued profit growths is to cut the bottom line.
In this case Reddit has been operating under staffed for quite sometime and they were making moves to try and turn the AMA's into paid advertising.. (Ie companies would be paying for the AMA's) which would of doomed them anyway once that was made public.