Let’s say you have a box that (completely legally) spits out 1 dollar per day. I’m using “box” in an abstract sense here: maybe it’s an investment or a business opportunity. How much would you pay for this box? In other words, what’s its fair market value?<\/p>\n
What if it spit out one dollar per hour? Would you pay exactly 24x as much for it then? Or one per week–would you pay 1\/7th as much?<\/p>\n
What if it’s hard to measure how much money comes out of it–maybe sometimes it emits a dollar, but sometimes you have to put one in. Then what? -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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