(Laughter)

If this technology is widely adopted,

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.

Biodiesel and ethanol are made from crops grown by petroleum powered agriculture.

We aided him with money.

We helped him financially.

And that's my dad found that.

You don't have to have enough units to power your entire house, you just save money with each incremental one you add.

It says, you know, social impact over here is spectacular, five stars.

It was done in five months by a startup company of a couple of people.

My father died. The family couldn't afford it.

Money has always been an issue for us, I'll give you that.

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And then they'll say well in the most naive interpretation of things, you net income in theory should be the cash you're getting or at least it's some type of profit you're getting assets in the door or at least you're counting as if you're getting some assets in the door.

The azalea means, May you achieve financial security.

We have this principal that we don't touch that produces returns, social, economic and ecological.

It's a library of life, but right now I would say we don't have a card catalog for it.

The company's profits soared.

I mean, these are state assets.

We can't afford to take chances.

I'm not interested in material gains.

My financial worries are past.

Are the profits exclusive of taxes?

Before Interest and Taxes.

He acted in his own interest.

People do not enslave people to be mean to them.

When the profit motive is ??? or when it becomes completely unhitch on the purpose motive, it's just, people don't do great 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.

My father helped me out of my financial difficulties.

I'm not interested in material gain.

I am not interested in material gain.

Anonymous does not make use of its hacked information for financial gain.

I had a quarrel with him over money.

My father will support me financially.

Scarcity is built into the money system, on a most obvious level.

The loan bears an 8 interest.

It has 2 bracelets, one for you and one to give away

To go to war, to free people from an outside aggressor, is noble

Yep, that's right.

So that's a little bit of a taste of why someone might realistically, in this case, pay a higher Price to Earnings for safety.

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

Our interests clash with theirs.

One blueprint for trouble, making collapse likely, is where there is a conflict of interest between the short term interest of the decision making elites and the long term interest of the society as a whole, especially if the elites are able to insulate themselves from the consequences of their actions.

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

They have to give permission to let the stock be borrowed, and they benefit, because they get some cut, hopefully, they get some cut of the rent, or the interest that I'm paying.