Board Thread:ROBLOX help and discussion/@comment-4196050-20160318144624/@comment-4196050-20160828164441

Epik Master wrote:

Acebatonfan wrote:

Does anyone have any official numbers on the estimated cost to run the ROBLOX client per day (including assets like servers, web hosting, staff salaries, office space, etc.) or roughly how large The ROBLOX Corporation's profit margins are (OT time: some pharmaceutical companies are getting lots of backlash for large profit margins and jacking up medication prices to extreme levels)?

I can't really find any good statistics but I'd assumed servers and web hosting would at least be a few hundred $$$ per month. The minimum wage in California is $10 per hour and San Mateo (the city ROBLOX is based in) plans to raise their minimum wage to $15 soon so it can be safe to assume they're definitely paying a bit more to their workers than the average business is.

[OT] This is what happens we let corporations dominate every aspect of our country, inb4 rednecks say socialism will be the fall of America Most of ROBLOX's open positions are looking for people with 4-year degrees, so I would assume that salaries would be way above minimum wage.

[OT] I wish the US had laws on how big of a profit margin pharmaceutical companies can have (and I'm a relatively fiscally conservative/laisse faire person). The out-of-pocket price for one vial of Novolog is about $280 (one vial will last me about 20-25 days), when the price to produce it is relatively cheap (rDNA plasmids are inserted into E. coli bacteria that "tell" the bacteria to produce proinsulin/insulin, which is then extracted, purified, and concentrated. The technology has been used for the past 30 years, but because the rapid-acting insulin analogs are patented no generic of this type of insulin is on the market). Germany has laws in place that prevent pharmaceutical companies from pricing at more than a certain markup (if a medication costs $1 to make, they can only charge a maximum of $6 for it).

Then again, the entire US health care system is a hot mess. I'm still stumped as to why a routine procedure at one hospital could cost $3,000, while the exact same procedure at a hospital 10 miles away could cost $30,000.