[x0x0]

Also the price of Excel rounds to zero when added to a professional salary for essentially any profession.

[blitzar]

If I add up all the costs required that "effectively round to zero" the remainder from a normal salary rounds to zero.

[x0x0]

Nonsense, or surely you'll be able to list these costs that add up to, let's say, over 50% of a salary or $30k plus.

[wjnc]

(The Netherlands) Pension contributions + employer taxes + office space. First two add up to about 70% on top of gross wages paid. Office space I’d estimate at € 2k per office worker. But indeed, laptops and MS software is cheap in comparison. Bloomberg Terminal comes to mind as a not so cheap software package.

[bdhcuidbebe]

libreoffice calc is foss, reads excel files and has been around for a long time. i used it professionally since 2011 (used open office before that).