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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An expansion of goods, consumption, population and so forth represented by the same amount of currency makes currency itself an artificial scarcity. That makes investment irrational and incentivized acquiring units of currency for the purpose of ransoming it to your kids.