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You don't understand. Internet profit isn't profit, we just learned that. Obviously the Internet works such that if it took you 100 hours to develop it, the Internet eats your hard drives every 30 days and you have to spend 100 hours again just to be at the same place. It's no different from standing at a lemonade stand for 100 hours. No different at all in any way. /s

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You realize that's a total straw-man argument, right?

It's not a straw-man argument. The post would make perfect sense if it were talking about an offline, labor-intensive business. Unpaid development time has nothing to do with cost-of-running-a-business expense. That's a fact. You can say from YOUR point of view it does. But it does not from the business's point of view.

This is like saying that a surgeon can't launch a profitable web business, because the time spent on it will not generate as much profit for him as if he had spent the time practicing surgery.

that's plainly completely false, and the web business can be very much profitable (just not to him.). Just THINK about it.

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