Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-38684270-20190319151844/@comment-27306930-20190325033000

ZunaLegend wrote: So, nerf cares, but only for money. Usual hasbro. Wellll, yes and no. This is often a hard concept for young Nerfers to understand, and I hate dumbing things down any more than necessary, but Hasbro is a public company. People like you and me, and other millionaires, can buy a piece of Hasbro. When we do, their responsibility is to make money for us, the stockholders, by either increasing the value of our stock, or by paying a dividend (ie. cash payments). Bottom line, THEY work for US by making money for us. It's their job. And sometimes that involves selling toys.

So yes, the bottom line is their primary job is to make money. Specifically, to make money, pay the shareholders, keep the doors open, and make more money. But there's a million different aspects to making money these days. For instance, it's actually possible to sell stuff to people you don't like. It's possible to "condone" things you don't agree with. It's possible to help people do things you wouldn't do. It's possible to make certain things a little bit easier. And it's possible to "look the other way" to make a profit.

Is that bad ? Is that wrong ? Absolutely not - if it makes sense for your stockholders and makes a profit for them. It's called doing your job. For further info you can google "capitalism" 😉