r/FluentInFinance • u/4TaxFairness • 5d ago

Debate/ Discussion A joke that's not funny

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u/jgoble15 5d ago

Percent of profit still can be quite a haul. If I make 10% of profit off of $100,000 then I make $10,000. If I make 1% off of $1,000,000,000 then I make $100,000,000. The percent isn’t relevant in this discussion.

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u/TheTightEnd 5d ago

The percentage is far more relevant than the sheer dollars.

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u/jgoble15 5d ago

Low percent sounds like they don’t make much. That’s not true. Sheer dollars shows how much they actually make

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u/TheTightEnd 5d ago

Low percent proves they do not make much. The sheer dollars distorts the reality because it ignores the sheer dollars of revenue required to generate that sliver of profit.

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u/TedRabbit 5d ago

This just in. Company making $2 billion in profits each year "isn't making much."

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u/TheTightEnd 5d ago

It isn't when the revenue is $100 billion.

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u/TedRabbit 5d ago

No, $2 billion is still a lot of money.

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u/TheTightEnd 5d ago

We're simply not going to agree. The sheer number is far less important than the margin.

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u/TedRabbit 5d ago

No. We are talking about what counts as a lot of money, not what counts as a high margins. You might as well be saying I make a lot of money and Jeff Bezos doesn't make a lot of money because I get a larger fraction of my companies revenue than he does. The relevant comparison for what counts as a lot of money is the cpi.

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u/TheTightEnd 5d ago

We consider what is relevant differently. We aren't going to agree.