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The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.
He never planned to improve transportation; he just wants to keep people trapped in cars.
https://newrepublic.com/article/174089/big-tech-watching-drive
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The saying never says that you can make 999,999,999.99 honestly. It just says one amount you can make honestly and one amount you can’t. The implication is that the outer limit of what you can make honestly is somewhere in between.
Thousands of underpaid workers in publishing offices, marketers, delivery drivers, and bookstore workers. Without them JK Rowling makes nothing, but they didn’t get any extra pay from the success of Harry Potter.
Merchandizing, which involve exploiting labor in underdeveloped countries, and investments, which involve exploiting the market. Also, it’s not like she personally sold the books, low-wage bookstore employees sold them while she promoted them. Anyway, she would have pulled 10% on the net profit, probably a little more over time, and the total book sales in USD are ~$7.7 billion. So let’s say that’s entirely profit (it’s not), that’s $770 million as of 2017. She allegedly made her first billion in 2005. It literally couldn’t have been from book sales.
There is no amount, how could there be? How could anyone place an exact dollar value on something like this?
You can’t make a billion dollars honestly, but the exact amount of money that you can make honestly is unknowable, that’s just not the kind of thing that has a hard value on it.
Matter of fact, i’m not sure if i agree with the original statement anyway, for the same reason: is there literally no way to make a billion dollars honestly? I don’t know that you can make that kind of hard statement
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The saying never says that you can make 999,999,999.99 honestly. It just says one amount you can make honestly and one amount you can’t. The implication is that the outer limit of what you can make honestly is somewhere in between.
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Majority of his wealth (pre-selling the Hornets) came from Jordans made in sweatshops… I would not call that ethical.
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Thousands of underpaid workers in publishing offices, marketers, delivery drivers, and bookstore workers. Without them JK Rowling makes nothing, but they didn’t get any extra pay from the success of Harry Potter.
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Man, I am the underpaid person in my supply chain.
And its a lot less ethical for people to profit billions off the labour of others than for me to profit a few thousand that I need to eat.
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Merchandizing, which involve exploiting labor in underdeveloped countries, and investments, which involve exploiting the market. Also, it’s not like she personally sold the books, low-wage bookstore employees sold them while she promoted them. Anyway, she would have pulled 10% on the net profit, probably a little more over time, and the total book sales in USD are ~$7.7 billion. So let’s say that’s entirely profit (it’s not), that’s $770 million as of 2017. She allegedly made her first billion in 2005. It literally couldn’t have been from book sales.
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There is no amount, how could there be? How could anyone place an exact dollar value on something like this?
You can’t make a billion dollars honestly, but the exact amount of money that you can make honestly is unknowable, that’s just not the kind of thing that has a hard value on it.
Matter of fact, i’m not sure if i agree with the original statement anyway, for the same reason: is there literally no way to make a billion dollars honestly? I don’t know that you can make that kind of hard statement
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Don’t feel like you’re taking the content how is meant to be read.
A million is a lot but a billion is an order of magnitude more. You think they worked an order of magnitude more?
Some would even say three orders of magnitude.
But not all, because some people can’t do math.
Well, three orders of magnitude more actually. Pop! Pop!
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Supply correlates with effort because you cannot create supply without labor/effort. At least not until we’re in some fully automated utopia.