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>You are arguing that a business should remain neutral even when it's getting screwed with.
No I'm arguing that their business is just transferring money. They should just do that, and governments should not impose requirements that they proactively monitor transactions or hit the PROCESSOR (because they simply PROCESS ie allow payments to work between other people) with fines for it happening.
>They literally earn money by moving money
Yea but that's less important than simply continuing to expand.
What you're missing is that we live in a fake economy now. Most business decisions are not for the health of the business, it's for boosting the stock prices. The LARGEST investors in the US right now are BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard. These are, themselves, soulless data-driven blobs that are beholden to THEIR shareholders. While they own shares in each other, which is just financial incest at this point, that's not their main concern.
Their shareholders are primarily the public. Retirement accounts, mainly. But also anyone with just basic index fund investing. There are so many layers of separation between the millions of John Does and Mastercard that the only signal that comes through is "make ur number go up so my money appreciates faster than inflation." The easiest hack, as I'm sure you noticed from the gigantic startup (specific business model) boom of the past 2 decades, is to just spam growth.
Are you beginning to understand why everything is fucked?
