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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4479208" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>in your case you could take less for yourself and bump up your driver pay.  You talk a good game about socialism but you're not interested in spreading the wealth.  Fine but just don't be hypocritical about it.  As far as humanity goes it depends if they're already making a decent profit and know that making more profit for shareholders means squeezing their employees even more.  And they aren't working out of a concern for shareholders either.  They know increasing share price by offering higher dividends puts more money in their own pockets when they exercise their stock options.  So you can say a company exists to make a profit but in today's world it often means exploiting the work of others to enrich yourself.  Dog eat dog Darwinian capitalism.  Survival of the greediest.</p></blockquote><p></p>