Comment by synecdoche
5 hours ago
Great! We're all convinced now by this lucid chain of arguments. Especially those of us who have run or own businesses.
5 hours ago
Great! We're all convinced now by this lucid chain of arguments. Especially those of us who have run or own businesses.
Having had a wonderful 4 hours of sleep, here's the free lesson I couldn't be bothered with last night:
Grocery store owner A's revenue last year was €500,000. Its profit was €0. It does not have an IT department because it's a corner shop that employs 2 people and has one computer.
Grocery store owner B's revenue last year was €50,000,000,000. Its profit was €0. It has an IT department because it's a huge fucking corporation with a thousand massive stores, multiple office blocks, 150,000 employees and all of the networking and IT infrastructure an operation of that size needs. It's considering opening a bank.
The number that tells you the difference between the scales of these two companies is the revenue, not the profit.
I need to stop wasting my time on the pit of ignorance this site has become.
I admire you having the patience to even come back to people who are just pretending to know it all. This thread is specially bad.