A lot of times in the popular press.

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.

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.

Our interests clash with theirs.

Minus 500,000.

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.

Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

A benefit to both our worlds.

I'll just abbreviate that as Nl.

And so you can already imagine that both EBlT and the way I defined it initially, operating profit divided by assets.

Go ahead, eat.

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

And other sources, namely Wikipedia, will tell you that it is actually so this is one definition of return on asset.

justice!

And that's my dad found that.

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.

Justice had triumphed once again.

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

The reason this is happening boils down, in my mind, to one basic problem, which is our inability to perceive the difference between public benefits and private profits.

This is 350,000 of net income.

Why make this thing?

All the profits go toward Phillip's hospital bills.

life blessed with lasting peace, security, and happiness.

The taxes will be 153,000.

I'm not a charity commissioner.

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

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

So now look at the different lens.

Peter The greatest benefit to all.

But the majority of the world neither benefits from capitalism nor from democratic systems.

He'd be asking us to redesign our national accounting system to be based upon such important things as social justice, sustainability and people's well being.

Over the same span of time sales have increased by two thirds and profits have doubled.

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

It is to his advantage.

We're better off without the TPP

There is no doubt about what they have done.

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

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

Quick example from the corporate world.