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Re:Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies by robbiep on Friday January 06, 2023 @06:30PM (#34282887)
To be able to maintain carry forward losses, you have to have capital. The boys didn’t have capital. They paid themselves what came in. If they had been maintaining losses, they wouldn’t have a house because they would have had to sell it.

Because of the losses, right?

How do you think money works?

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Re:Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies by User23 on Friday January 06, 2023 @06:46PM (#34283064)
Not necessarily. But they probably didn't have a good lawyer and accountant. It's certainly possible to have a corporation run a loss while its employees keep their houses. I mean that's pretty much the entire point of corporations.
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Re:Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies by expazl on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:35PM (#34346038)
Why would a worker who owns a house and every year is owed more and more in unpaid back salary from a company they are working at for free, ever need to sell their house to cover the debt that the company has to themselves?
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