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Numbers made up to illustrate a point: Company invests $75 million. Gross revenues of $150 million. Net profit $75 million. Companies exist in perpetuity, so t
by malandrew 7y ago
Numbers made up to illustrate a point:
Company invests $75 million. Gross revenues of $150 million. Net profit $75 million. Companies exist in perpetuity, so that net profit gets reinvested in new research to develop more advances.
Alternate scenario: Company invests $75 million. IP stolen and company recoups $0. Company goes out of business and a successful research organization that took years to build is destroyed.
- baybal2 7y agoBut wait, how is the company getting "destroyed" if nothing really happens to it?
- malandrew 7y agoWhere does the money come from for continued operations?
- baybal2 7y agoWell, it doesn't in that scenario, but also in god knows how many others. You can equally well blame competitors for "criminally" driving you out of business. Is driving a company out of business be now a crime for anybody else?