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> Where is that in your example?

It's the math behind “Adding salaries to wikipedia's number drops from 8 million visits per $20 per month, to 400,000 visits per $20 per month.”

Put another way, it costs 20x for the employees. The budget actually goes 20x the 2.4M to 48M, or 45M after the hosting is paid.

> Buying reporters is not the same as buying reliability.

Just like hiring workers is not the same as buying completed work. This is true of all paid effort.



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