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Originally Posted by Ekaros
Yeah, a few billion in profits is bad...
You know, our world is sick.
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This is the entire problem of the crisis in Europe.
There are companies over here that are *firing* people, even while they are making 4+ billions of profit each year. Why do they fire people? Simple. Because analysts and shareholders expected profits to be 5+ billion. That's just sick.
More and more, the money is flowing towards a few overly rich companies and people, while there's not enough money for the not-so-rich. The old saying "money makes money" is quite true, as you can use your money to set up operations to make more. That money must come from somewhere. Naturally, it comes from the people who cannot set up such operations.
As soon as this trend stops (again, as it did in 19th and 20th century, for a time), and normal people have money to spend again, then many problems will magically resolve itself.
Not with regard to the design of the Metro UI, of course... but you get what I mean. PC's will be sold more, upgraded faster, which creates incentive to create all new sorts of software and games and hardware, which will bring about new technology, for which a new, better operating system is needed.... and so on.