All right: which restaurant generates more revenue: McDonald's or The French Laundry?

I'm not sure what being "in the list" has to do with it.

The notion that raising prices automatically increases profits is just absurd. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It's not possible to generalize about it.

Congratulations. You built a strawmen and are now knocking it down. I never said what you are arguing against - that "raising prices automatically increases profits."

Feel free to address how venture capital distorts prices at any time.

That "strawman" was exactly what the original post was claiming. It may not have been what you said, but it's certainly what the original article was claiming.

Modding me down won't change the facts, either.

Pointing out that you can't just charge anything you want for a product isn't a "straw man". It's just a fact.

Sorry.