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lotsofpulp 24 days ago

Is it? What is the reason to assume an arbitrary number of a currency is "obscene", without taking into account changes in purchasing power of the currency, number of employees, number of customers, amount of expenses, volatility of the business, time horizon of investment, and myriad other factors?

margalabargala 24 days ago | parent [-]

The size of it concentrated in one place.

lotsofpulp 24 days ago | parent [-]

What does one place mean? Disney sells access to media and entertainment all over the world, to billions of people.

Regardless, a single metric is almost never sufficient to provide a well rounded analysis of anything.

margalabargala 24 days ago | parent [-]

I suspect you'll be able to figure it out if you thunk for a moment! When we're talking about the profits of one corporation, what do you think it might mean when someone says the profits go to "one place"?

I know it can be confusing that many places exist and that the corporation has multiple customers.