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That's being pretty pedantic. Its not even technically correct as the original sentence was "...generate profit so great their boss was able to finance his own
by bawolff 2y ago
That's being pretty pedantic.
Its not even technically correct as the original sentence was "...generate profit so great their boss was able to finance his own private space program." They didn't say he funded his space project with amazon profits, they are saying that as a result of the profits bezos was able to fund a space program. Which is undoubtedly true as the amazon equity wouldn't be worth much if amazon wasn't making any money .
- drysine 2y agoSo "...generate profit so great their boss was able to finance his own private space program" is only misleading while technically correct.
- rsynnott 2y agoEh, not really. This is just, in practice, how profits are extracted from this sort of company (and most sorts of companies; for various reasons, the phenomenon of a company paying out most of its profit in dividends is dying out) at the moment.