Comment on Verizon Fails Again, Shutters Attempted Zoom Alternative BlueJeans After Paying $400 Million For It
orphiebaby@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Imagine being able to just waste $400 mil. While 40% of the people in the same, richest country on Earth are living paycheck to paycheck, trying not to become homeless.
just_change_it@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Verizon has 117,100 employees. They spent $3415 per person. This doesn’t include all the contractors and consultants they have manning their phone lines overseas for a few bucks a day.
Their market cap is 140.25 billion dollars. 0.4 billion is a trivial amount of money compared to all the money already invested in them.
One person thinks about big numbers as “why can’t they just give it away so I can have things better.” There’s four billion people out there who have trouble putting food on the table and could never even think about seeing a quality of life that even the homeless have in the US. Dividing that 400 million up wouldn’t do much of anything for them.
Even if you take 40% of americans (132,760,000) and hand out 400 million dollars that’s only $3 per person.
orphiebaby@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Who the fuckity shit said my argument was about dividing $400 million among four billion people?
just_change_it@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I forget people have trouble following comments that are longer than a couple of sentences :(
oKtosiTe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, their point is valid. You just did a bunch of mathematics while completely ignoring the issue of corporations and rich executives wasting money on frivolous endeavors.
Not only that, you literally suggested that dividing the BlueJeans money among the poor of the world would do them little benefit, as is Verizon is the only company perpetrating corporate greed.