I think you're misunderstanding the valuation of money vs collectibles. Obviously an ancient artifact made of gold is worth more than the pure gold value. Same for rare coins. I was talking about silver as money, not as collectible.
Lol, we had a sales rep in a meeting to talk about licensing while we were already self hosting and using it. When he heard that we would store business data and log data for the same app he said that's two different use cases, and that we'd need two licenses.
Their ACTUAL profit margins are significantly larger and growing.
Their gross profits are up because money is worth less because of inflation. The purchasing power of those "growing" profits has basically not changed.
FED policies affect every currency on this planet as they are all backed by the usd.. the consumer price index was designed to under report inflation. The basket would be CHEAPER every year because of improvements in production if there was no inflation.
So just like you?