It's also important to think about what the benefit is.

All they care about is profits.

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.

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.

My marriage had drifted us away from each other.

The system is inherently unstable as a result of the international power it provides to the dominant parties, for at the heart of it lies the idea of How can I get something for nothing'.

The system is inherently unstable as a result of the international power it provides to the dominant parties, for at the heart of it lies the idea of how can I get something for nothing.

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

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

I'm not interested in material gains.

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

Our interests clash with theirs.

Minus 500,000.

I'm not interested in material gain.

I am not interested in material gain.

This is 350,000 of net income.

The taxes will be 153,000.

Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

A benefit to both our worlds.

I'll just abbreviate that as Nl.

And this is, I think, a perfect example of what Robert Wright was talking about in those non zero sum things.

Quick example from the corporate world.

We had 200 of expenses.

Go ahead, eat.

There is no interest... in the common good.

And that's my dad found that.

They have no interest expense, because that's not the point of this video.

I asked them all.

He was a good another.

And I wondered who was doing these kinds of films today.

And that's what these brands did.

FDlC insured.

The rewards would be... enormous.

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.

Because during conflict economic policy typically deteriorates.

This was interest. This was non op income.

This guy makes what is this?

And then I was left with 1 million.

Why isn't it on every poster across the third world?

And we had no expenses in that month.

Our profit here, if we just take the number that we have here,

This guy makes 21,000.

Are you using historical earnings?