If the cost is 100 times cheaper than 2-3k per kilo that’s $20-30 per kilo, or 500k.

Maths checks out, whether the cost per launch is really that low is another thing.

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mkl 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You have misunderstood; SpaceX obviously doesn't have a profit margin of 99%. The 100x comparison was with the space shuttle.

	▲	mynameisvlad 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Then it really shouldn't have been written immediately after "Wait, that's price. SpaceX is profitable." The two statements have literally nothing to do with one another and it's easy to see why one would assume that the final sentence is talking about the sentence immediately before it.
	▲	hdgvhicv 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The implication to me and others was “it’s roughly 100x cheaper than the (3k/kg) price” And that wouldn’t be a profit margin of 99%, it would be a profit margin around 10000%