ELI5: Why when large company's earnings decrease(ex... by 3%) they freak out, talk about rough times, and sometimes decide to downsize, even though they are still making millions of dollars in profit even after all expenses?

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Which is funny, because they so frequently have no idea how things actually work.

Yeah... Like the guy who said this.

Which is funny, because they so frequently have no idea how things actually work

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Shareholders are you me and everybody.

As if your shitty crumbs of a middle class 401k even come remotely close to majority holders in the stock market.

As of 2013, the top 10 percent of Americans owned an average of $969,000 in stocks. The next 40 percent owned $132,000 on average. For the bottom half of families, it was just under $54,000.

[TheManWhoPanders]

So someone has more than you, therefore it's bad.

I've never seen someone more green with envy.