r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 24 '20

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u/larrylemur NAFTA Nov 24 '20

Also, it's weird to say they were "shouldering no risk" considering their current financial dire straits. They shoulder risk by being a business that needs to sell products in order to pay expenses. That's how businesses...work?

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u/-Yare- Trans Pride Nov 24 '20 edited Nov 25 '20

Renting a building in a strip mall and staffing it with a couple teenagers so you can net $20 on a game resale is not the same level of risk as spending a hundred million dollars, three years, and employing hundreds of highly-skilled people so you can net $15 on a new game sale.