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by Chris2048 1921 days ago
> You can pay someone $5/hr to provide you with $10/hr of value

What is "$10/hr of value" as distinct for what you paid for it? Is it based on how much you sold the end-product for?

If that's the case, you paid $X/hr to earn an extra $X/hr - in other words no extra profit, is that not correct?