>> "but practically speaking [they] are broke"

> How do you know this?

They were not claiming a fact, they were posing a hypothetical.

They mean even in the hypothetical how would they know, without open books? They're just theorizing, same as with revenue.

gortok 32 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I’m speaking of things I have personally witnessed; but won’t go into more detail than that, for various reasons.

	▲	IndySun 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>...won't go in the more detail...various reasons... I wish you had said that in your opening comment. Would've helped me consider where you were coming from. I'm just making an overall remark, wondering what you're inferring, and more widely still digesting this entire post.