Even if it benefited the publishers, it was a creative right and author's right.

And when people talk about earnings of a company, this is what they're talking about.

So you've probably heard not only the term earnings, you've probably also heard the term earnings per share.

They buy more of your service and they tell more of their friends, which leads to more profit.

We are assuming a very simple world, were the is no taxes, we have no debt, we have no intrest or things

This is a pretty profitable business, more profitable than most.

And let's say, assume if I inherited this million dollars, I didn't finance it.

And you'll hear these numbers, gross and operating profit and net profit and pretax profit, and it's very hard to understand that these are actually very, very different things, because they all have the word profit, and what does gross and operating and all that mean?

It's good for everybody.

And at least it'll give you a sense of how revenues, gross profit, operating profit, pre tax income and net income really are different.

But again, fun is not enough.

This is really important to pay attention to, because so many people say, oh, a company made this much.

These are the only people who really have, arguably the sophistication and the time and the monetary incentive to really look and scrutinize what management is doing.

This is what the owners of the company get before they pay the government.

(Laughter) But I know it's the bottom line, or one's perception of it, that motivates people in the end.

We know how much it takes to build our product.

Then the companies or those factories or whatever you want to think of them,

So EBlT, I kind of view that it goes backwards.

In return on equity, the numerator is the net income that we got, so it's 350,000.

But when you lower the Price to Earnings you are increasing the Earnings to Price.

I'll just abbreviate that as Nl.

What's in it for the institution?

The assets are generating this.

Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

And then if you subtract your costs from your revenue, or if you just add these two numbers, because this one is negative, you have your gross profit.

People tend to place a much higher value on losses than on gains.

But in general if you take EBlT and you take out the non operating income, you get back to operating profits.

So, let's see, you have to do 1.85.

Utilities are still rewarded when their customers waste energy.

So what they do is they just take your earnings number and you divide by the number of shares.

So that's what I'm paying for, arguably.

Minus 500,000.

So it will benefit, because you are discounting some of the cash payments.

With trade, there's mutual interdependency and mutual gain between parties.

The taxes will be 153,000.

War does have its benefits...

But just so you know what EBlT is, EBlT is just Earnings

I'm not a charity commissioner.

And then I'll do a more philosophical video on why these things even exist, and why they're useful, and why people may benefit or may not benefit from these things.

Science comes first, but business comes a close fucking second.

And then, how much am I making from the business now?

And so I actually raised prices.

But here you see it means very, very different things.

And now we're ready to figure out how much money did the operations of this business make?

They're generating the operating profit, and that's a very important thing to realize in the future when we talk about return on assets.