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    1 year ago

    Missing the line:

    profit += subsidies_that_are_totally_not_hand_outs_when_we_get_them_but_are_if_you_do
    

    Fishing industry for instance:

    In fact, a 2018 study showed that without government subsidies, as much as 54% of high seas fishing grounds would be unprofitable at current fishing rates.

    […]

    Governments pay about $20 billion a year in damaging types of fisheries subsidies, primarily to industrial fishers, to offset costs such as fuel, gear and vessel construction.

    https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/reducing-harmful-fisheries-subsidies