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I don't understand how you can spend 500 million dollars on this. How is that even possible? 500 million dollars is an enormous amount of money. You could make
by darawk 10y ago
I don't understand how you can spend 500 million dollars on this. How is that even possible? 500 million dollars is an enormous amount of money. You could make 2-5 large budget, full length hollywood movies for that price. Complete with multi-million dollar budgets for A-list celebrities and high quality special effects.
- sfeng 10y agoAssuming you're paying people 60k a year, 500 million dollars buys you full-time employment for over eight thousand people for a year. Unless the deliverable was two thousand well produced videos, I have to agree.
- microcolonel 10y agoI'd say a lot of it was probably airtime costs. Several years of advertisements on multiple channels seems like it would be costly. The personnel costs obviously can't even approach that.
- maerF0x0 10y agoI'd say a lot of it was friends or hush money. $100M to do the job, $400M to keep you quiet and in my backpocket
- wcummings 10y agoBad procurement policies.
- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 10y agoIt wouldn't surprise me if $499 million of that actually got diverted to another undisclosed project.