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by schneems 662 days ago
Profit is revenue minus costs. How many of those “costs” are things like private planes for executives? How much for reps that visit doctors and give out free samples and swag and tickets to Cancun?

Famously some major tech companies aim to have zero profit as they want to reinvest everything back in the company. It doesn’t mean they don’t have any wiggle room to drop prices.