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by hx8 22 days ago
Wouldn't a fair way to count the value be all of the money selling them produced minus all of the money you spent producing them?
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No, because the customers bought the games. That means the customers valued the games at some value higher than the purchase price. There's a ton of surplus value for society produced as part of this process that doesn't end up on a company's balance sheet.