[bmulyadi]

If we convert the metric to net income

| Alphabet | 4 days 20 hrs 6 mins |

| Amazon | 1 day 12 hrs 58 mins |

| Apple | 0 day 18 hrs 14 mnins |

| Meta | 18 days 17 hrs 19 mins |

| Microsoft | 0 day 9 hrs 4 mins |

Total: 26 days 5 hrs 40 mins

[ot]

> Total: 26 days 5 hrs 40 mins

What's the significance of adding up together the rows? Time passes simultaneously for all these companies.

[Arcuru]

That's how the article above does it for some reason, so it is consistent but I agree it makes no sense.

[bitshiftfaced]

Thank you. There was really no reason for the author to use revenue instead of net income other than to make the problem they were reporting seem just a little bit worse.

[hef19898]

Congrats, you just discovered percentage calculation...