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It's a third of $40k, "three times less" than $40k would be -$80k

"X times less" is actually a technically meaningless statement, but colloquially would mean 1/X. There's nothing to be gained by being pedantic over that

It's just annoying to see, like when people write "less then" or "should of"

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