• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    You are suggesting that $X in profit = $X of having “overcharged” the customer.

    This is completely ridiculous on its face. No private entity will or should ever go to all the effort and time and resources to start a new business if there will never be any profit. Obviously.

    And ironically, even if the government gets involved in providing X instead, without profit in mind, the bureaucracy is such that its ‘no profit’ price for X is invariably higher than a price a private entity can charge while profiting.

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      30 days ago

      No I’m saying that if their profit didn’t need to take a useless billionaire leech into consideration then prices could be lower.

      That last part is complete bullshit as well and you would know it if you knew anything about crown corporations.

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        30 days ago

        Have you ever considered people becoming billionaires of companies that haven’t made a single cent of profit? Spotify never made any profit for example and is still valued at just 96 bn USD

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          29 days ago

          Stock valuation has nothing to do with the current conversation but billionaires shouldn’t exist at all whole homeless people exist, it’s that simple.

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            27 days ago

            I don’t think billionaires shouldn’t exist necessarily, I do think homeless people shouldn’t exist tho.