• sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    My wage doesn’t have a cost of goods sold line item. If I take in $5b and make $5.5b in revenue, $300m is > 1/2 of my net profit

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      12 hours ago

      True, but if you stop working your income drops to 0, while if Disney stops working, it still owns billions in assets.