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Re:Why I lost $42,500 making a VR game by sigi45 on Saturday December 01, 2018 @02:24AM (#18575738)
He invested, on purpose and with the goal to make money, his time as a software engineer.

The amount of time is not nothing and his hourly rate is reasonable.

It is not wrong to say he lost it

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Re:Why I lost $42,500 making a VR game by jowdones on Saturday December 01, 2018 @10:18AM (#18577095)
In all likelyhood all he paid himself was the price of his game ($2.99) times the number of units sold (about 100). So about $0.375 / hour. Given the horrendous competitivity and sheer statistics his efforts at making a profit were a powerball gamble. No way he didn't bet $42,000 on it.
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