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Wouldn't a fair way to count the value be all of the money selling them produced minus all of the money you spent producing them?


No, because the customers bought the games. That means the customers valued the games at some value higher than the purchase price. There's a ton of surplus value for society produced as part of this process that doesn't end up on a company's balance sheet.




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