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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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[–] 160 points 11 months ago (17 children)

Revenue. Revenue is not profit.

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  • [–] 65 points 11 months ago (13 children)

    Correct. The article is discussing revenue.

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  • [–] 35 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    The headline is misleading, it was worth mentioning.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    I don't think it's misleading, "generating" implies gross profit, not net. It's not explicit, but it's also not misleading.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    "Makes".

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Again, implying gross profit, not net. It didn't say "makes" 50 million profit. You are inferring something that is not otherwise implied.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Considering that I've seen conflation of revenue and profit from actual journalists, I stand by my previous statement.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Buddy. Take a breath for a moment. I mean this constructively; it's an opportunity to learn.

    What you've just said here is essentially this:

    1. Some journalists sometimes make errors.
    2. Therefore I choose to make an interpretive error.

    Please remember, we all make errors (myself included). The best of us learn from them.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Not just that but I mean journalism geez. I can't think of a profession that has had more of a fall from grace in the last 20 years. Furthermore the implication here is video game journalism, which has always been the lowest form of Journalism.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It's not misleading, you've just purposely ignored the meaning of the words to instead imply your own.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Then again, somehow I don’t expect Valve’s expenditures are that high, except download server costs.

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