Sorry, you’re quite right - I misread it to begin with.

This paper suggests you’re spot on that they’re not as profitable as other large companies, but they’re still making an awful lot of money on top of the necessary costs.

Except as highlighted, if the drug didn’t make a return on investment it wouldn’t be made. That can be true for government funded research, it’s not necessary to have a profit margin on top.

Streisand effect in action. I am never going to buy anything Nintendo, because they’re a dog-shit company. I hadn’t realised a Switch emulator existed. Andddd… My wife would really like to play Pikmin 4.

No, because they add advertisements to services you pay for.

See: television, streaming services, fucking books even.

It’s just unregulated capitalism doing what unregulated capitalism does - gobble up as much revenue as possible, at the expense of everything else.

I mean, it did up until maybe now.

For context, Bungiefan_ak has no fewer than 4 alts that I’ve seen (all on different instances with the same username)

I mean, this is one of the benefits of the lemmyverse - using the same username across different instances. It’s not subversive.

That’s not to lend a defence of this guy - just didn’t want having Lemmy alts presented as a bad thing.

THE PACK IS HERE.

AROOOOOOOO.