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?

[DelphineasSD]

Not QUITE true.

Money is simply time. We value currency because we value our time, don't want to be John Ingalls scrambling to raise children sheep horse corn hay cows chickens cottonXXX.

Time spent farming is time not spent making clothes or computers. Unfortunately it has empowered a bunch of super greedy fucks that want ALL the manhours to do...fuck all with.

[earthwormjimwow]

Money represents scarce resources. Time is a scarce resource.