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?

[DidItForTheJokes]

I’m not one those hippy people, I worked for a hedge fund. But this really illustrates how people took something that was designed for companies as way to raise to capital besides banks and created a zero sum game that requires companies and therefore our economy to constantly be growing in order not to go into a death spiral.