• iopq@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Profits go up per unit, but not necessarily the total amount since you’re moving fewer units

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      6 months ago

      Except corporations were posting record profits. So both profit per unit and overall profitability were increased.

      They took advantage of COVID to fleece the public.

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      6 months ago

      If you’ve been paying attention you would have seen that profit margins were going up as well

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        6 months ago

        For some companies, sure.

        Intel and AMD, for example, already sold so many computers during the pandemic their profits are down now