• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Revenue is income. Profit is income minus expenses. Without ANY profit there no motivation to operateva business.

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      11 months ago

      Getting paid a multimillion dollar salary is ‘not motivation’ to run companies like Google and Sony? Huh, could have fooled me. You do know wages are expenses right? Including those of the owners and ceo’s and board, right?

      You’re not so stupid as to not know what the definition of profit is in the dictionary, right? You can look it up instead of continuing to be wrong you know.

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        11 months ago

        Let’s say you have an idea for a product that will change the world, but you have no capability to produce it because you’d need access to hundreds of workers and billions’ worth of machinery?

        Even supposing you want to be paid nothing for your invention, how do you get it made?

        You have to have someone else partner with you to do it. But why should they? If nobody is allowed to profit, then there’s no business reason for an existing company to innovate or change.