What's basic capitalism? Is it bad that capitalism victimizes fundamentally unsustainable companies? And to whom does netflix need to show endless growth?
Lots of people and even companies do not require or have endless growth, many are content (or at least sustainable) turning a relatively constant profit.
I was replying to parent who said that. Or at least that's how I read it.
Capitalism punished the people who had unrealistic expectations of netflix's growth.
This is not the case under capitalism, it happens under regulated economies.
Under capitalism, "profitable" _is_ the signal of the net value something generates, and that is its own motive.
> It's simply never enough (hence the many references to unrealistic infinite growth),
Untrue. Many people and companies operate under steady (or even declining) profits, still run while they generate profit.
> so what is most likely to happen is some way to 'restart' the growth count, so we can have a pretend-infinite-growth party again. Maybe a merger, maybe a spinoff, maybe a some other construction.
A great number of good options for valuable companies and products and services are available under capitalism yes, this is one point I will agree on.
If we were just talking about netflix story, in that case what we're talking about is a CNN article claiming these things might happen which really has little basis in actual reality or how capitalism works. The _actual_ Netflix is still here, and it is still here despite being deemed not profitable enough by many.
If you would like to interpret it differently, that's up to you and I can't really help you with that.