Profit survey

[asterroc]

1) What do you think is the most profitable industry or organization? By this, I mean if you counted the profits they made and divided by the money they spent, who do you think gives the biggest number?

2) What do you think is the most profitable physical product? You can't say "information," but you could say "textbooks." Music on iTunes doesn't count, but physical music CDs do.

Who knows (or cares) what the right answers are, I am just curious as to people's reasons. And whether anyone will answer me at all. :-P

Comments

[q10.livejournal.com]

i could actually think about this and come up with intelligent answers, but it's more fun to say the first things that pop into my head.

so i'm going to go with ‘organized religion’ for (1) and ‘soft drinks’ for (2).

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I put organized religion high up there too - they take in a lot of "charity" donations, but don't "have" to spend too much of them to upkeep the buildings and employees. Though, I could argue that their expenses of good works would be a drain.

Yeah, I realized I could look it up too, and decided not too. And then jethereal had to go and *SPOILER WARNING* spoil it for me. :-P But that only counts traditional industries, as far as I know. I doubt things like religion or aid work would be included.