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Businesses don’t have “effort”. They have costs and revenues and if costs exceed revenues they just raise revenues (aka the price to the consumer).

If you think of a business as a machine, and the person who bought the machine as a stockholder, you would understand that a machine does not suddenly work harder because the person paid more for the machine.

>>chrisc+(OP)
A machine has inputs and outputs. It’s inputs have to of some level of quality to get outputs of some other correlated level of quality. A consistent supply of quality inputs is correlated with a consistent supply of quality outputs.

The trouble here seems to be maintaining a consistent supply that is sustainable.