>It's only a percentage Because They Can.
Do you object to other sorts of royalty-based compensation, like for Unity engine or Unreal engine?
Do you object to other sorts of royalty-based compensation, like for Unity engine or Unreal engine?
There should be caps overall and under the caps there should be the option to choose between lump sum and royalties.
Nobody should be collecting unlimited revenue for a brilliant idea at the start and benefit from cheap or free scaling.
This entire model is ripping apart the fabric of modern society.
And yes, I known this is blasphemy on this website.
You should look at it the other way, where ANY income or income equivalent, of any kind, should be taxed like income.
So when Bezos spends $5bn per year, that means he made $5bn per year (at least), so his tax statement should show him paying $2bn or whatever the top tax rate would imply.