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From: killerb_0187
Date: Sat Dec 21, 2002 1:48pm
Subject: [Derren Brown] Re: hypnosis practice.
--- In a previous message Blue Chip wrote:
> Harry, old bean, you're having a go at the wrong person, and "oops -
lol"
> would have been a sufficient reply. I didn't come up with the
original
> numbers, I only corrected the math. But just to clarify...
>
> Maybe the guy was referring more generally to the publishing
company or the
> retailers who make a damn site more than 10%, each. Humerously the
only
> people to take less profit is the capitalist government who run
this
> country and don't charge tax on books.
>
> And he did want it and he did buy it hence "I recently brought
frogs into
> princes for around £11.95" I think the comparison (fair or
otherwise) was
> being made with books in general. A novel 10 times the size (in
pages) and
> rarely selling that many copies would be less than half the price.
And
> anyway, most of the money in this industry is generated by other
work like
> film rights or guest appearances, semiars and the such.
>
> Finally 250,000*(12/(100/10)) = £300,000 Many people will bearly
earn that
> much in a lifetime, let alone off the sales of one book. Mimum
wage is now
> about £4.30 if I recall correctly; that gives an annual salary of
about
> £8,600 before tax; a working life is about 40 years and 40*8600 =
> £344,000. If you're in it to help people you don't take THAT much
from
Which footballers make in around a month...LOL, how fair is that!?
It's absurd!!
> them, especially as the people who need NLP most are generally the
> emotionally and/or financially less fortunate.
>
> Bc
>
