(“Brokerage commissions?” Yep; it once routinely cost $100 to $400 to purchase stock on the public markets, because you needed a licensed professional to do it for you. These days discount brokerages are trying to decide whether the single-digit dollars they charge even matter.)
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Fun fact: if you haven’t thought of this question before, “What percentage of revenue is the commissions?” is a question you can get out of annual reports for any brokerage, and you are probably overestimating it markedly.
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Home security, server costs
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Server costs are a good one. Bandwidth, too. Archival space and reliability.
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With inflation what is $8.5k in 1989$? 20k?
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About 2X.
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Elections. It now sadly takes as little as $10k to sway politicians.
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I think this is highly unlikely to be true, because there are a lot of people with $10k who don't have their preferences satisfied.
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Photographs
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