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Fusion 360 increasing annual price to $680 USD
(lemmy.world)
Got this email from Autodesk that Fusion is increasing their annual price by a huge amount. I subbed for 1 year a couple years ago for I think $380. Then I was able to get an educational sub after that. Fusion is still the cheapest CAD software out there, not including the free stuff like FreeCAD, but still, this price increase is massive.
It should be noted that it's still free to use for personal use minus the extra features.
So if you make 1000$ in a year from modeling, 680 goes to fusion360
Revenue does not mean profit. So if you sell something that costs $800 in material, soll it for $1000, you still need to pay for fusion…
And then If that's all you sold that year You're all of a sudden at a $480 loss.
It's just like rent inflation while wages stay the same
Cost of business is factored into price to the consumer. A single freelance contractor trying to help pay rent and groceries for his wife and 2 kids shouldn't need to eat the increase at the expense of his family's financial support, so he charges more for his services.
A big company will also increase their costs likewise, but they already have expenses covered and the extra money goes into stock buybacks and board member compensation packages.
And if you make $70,000 in a year from it, $680 goes to Fusion360.
Let's stay realistic here, mmkay?
Just use the same creative^W standard accounting practices that all other companies use. Take Google for example... we all know that they don't pay any taxes, because they don't earn any positive revenue. Right?
So I'd like to use the same approach. I would not be the one making $1000. That would be my, um, cousin, who just happens to live in Bermuda. HE is the one making all that money, not me! So I don't have to pay the $680, right?
(By the way, can I also stop paying taxes and be worth a trillion dollars now? No? Why not?!?!)
If you want a net profit of $1000 you would need three subscriptions