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Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] skeptomatic@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago

Nah he's right. Nobody buys a widget for 5 bucks and sells it for 10 bucks and says, "I made 10 bucks". By your rational I could buy a car new for 25 grand, sell it 10 years later for 12 grand and say I "made" 12 grand off it.
"Make" has typically implied profit for as long as I can remember.

[-] stray@pawb.social 3 points 6 months ago

I interpreted it as profit.

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