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Re:Boris, a tradeoff-oriented goal-setting process by lazyasciiart on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:51AM (#33906530)
I will pay you $10 to give me $5.

I just increased my revenue by $10 but decreased my profitability by $5. Now pretend that $10 was spent on ineffective advertising and sales, so I actually gave it to Google and my sales guy Bob, and $5 is the price I charged you.

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Re:Boris, a tradeoff-oriented goal-setting process by WJW on Thursday December 08, 2022 @08:37AM (#33907723)
That's not how revenue works.
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Re:Boris, a tradeoff-oriented goal-setting process by lazyasciiart on Thursday December 08, 2022 @01:01PM (#33910948)
Doh, it should say revenue increased by $5.
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