When a business becomes successful and those who own it/run it become reliant on the cash flow, it's extremely difficult to NOT focus entirely on the bottom line. But of course you have to do things that are counter-bottom line at times to ebb and flow with the times. But the pressure builds to keep that number where it's at (and growing). It's like how Sly described it. It's human nature. It's a cycle.
Thing is, those companies/people who are truly successful know they cannot be so short-sighted and reactionary. That's the path to destruction.
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