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Again, I would love to read it some other way, but there is none that makes sense. In your reading, how does one put "99% of the value" in one part but "the pro
by jsnell 4y ago
Again, I would love to read it some other way, but there is none that makes sense. In your reading, how does one put "99% of the value" in one part but "the profit center" in another?
- jjoonathan 4y agobrianwawok's post uses the "give a value X to Y" colloquialism, which usually means "have an opinion that Y has a value of X." You seem to be reading it as "impose price X on Y through socialist decree," or something. I thought that was uncharitable.
- jsnell 4y agoSorry, I have never heard anyone use "give a value" like that. I'll trust you that it's idiomatic, but even with that substitution it still doesn't make sense. "Obviously if you have an opinion that retail has 99% of the market cap and pull the profit center, that would be bad". What in the world is that supposed to mean? Our opinions aren't going to affect the world, there will no consequences if somebody has that opinion. How is it bad? And with that interpretation, I have no idea of what "pull the profit center" could mean. Because that has to be talking about the way you split the company, not about an opinion you'd have.