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You need to look at net profit not gross which is much smaller. The net profit margin 10%.
Re:Norway’s Wealth Tax Is Backfiring on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @12:55PM (#36509196)
Norway already had a wealth tax and raising it resulted in less overall revenue not more. That is what the article is saying.
Re:Labor Supply and the Attention Tax on Sunday October 21, 2018 @02:46PM (#18269451)
"One view of the status quo is that media companies are aggregating human attention and selling it at a discount–far below minimum wage–to advertisers in a massive arbitrage on human capital."

Interesting idea. I've never thought of attention in this manner before.

Re:Ask HN: YouTube down? on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @10:49PM (#18235743)
And it's back!
Re:Ask HN: YouTube down? on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:26PM (#18234845)
Down in Canada too.
Re:Uber’s Flying Taxi on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @09:15AM (#17029518)
Wow. That's actually mind blowing... I never would have thought that neural interfacing could be so cheap and affordable