• sir_pronoun@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    cough I believe if 40$ means 30% profit, then the cost to produce it is 28$. With the current price of it being 42,250$, this means the profit rate is 42,250$/28$*100%=150,892%.

    In words, one hundred fifty thousand percent.

    It’s insane. Even if I am wrong and it’s 3000% or 30,000% profit on a product funded by tax-payer money, it’s insane and should be criminal.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, I wasn’t really paying that much attention, and went off of OP reply’s 30 x 1000 and then missed out a zero lol

      But yeah, it only gets more despicable the more accurate the numbers are…