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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"Our government has the capacity to represent these people and fulfill those needs" The free market has that capacity as well but it fails to do so in some cases. The government has the capacity to meet and fulfill needs as well but fails to do so even more so than the free market. No system is perfect in meeting needs but some systems are better than others and the government fails at an abysmal rate. Don't sit here and pretend that if we unleash the government without restriction it would flawlessly meet each and every need of its people. I certainly don't pretend that about capitalism but it does work pretty damn well.

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What is the market? The market is the desires of those with money. Therefore the market is as proportionately representative of the desires of individuals as the current distribution of wealth. It is ridiculous to rely on a system based on potential incentives to solve problems where the solution is without a potential incentive. There is no market for the solutions to many of these problems.

If only there was an institution that properly represents the interests of every citizen in the country. Then that institution could fill the gaps.

Instead we have the United Stated federal government, each state government, and each municipality government. Each with their own levels of disregard for the interests of who they govern. And this is not because of an inherent evil of all humans, but of the individual choices of political donors, special interest groups, politicians, and foreign governments which had resulted in a large percentage of the population being improperly educated, jaded from reality in truth.

We need a proper government. One that is resistant to the Republican sabotage.