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groundzeros2015yesterday at 2:48 PM1 replyview on HN

So if you were to assign value to the work to make a new Star Wars toy would you it’s (total value of Stat wars) * (number of people who have ever worked on Star Wars) / (number of people who worked on the toy)?

That’s absurd. Obviously they are creating incremental wealth and their particular toy didn’t make or break billions.


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tsimionescuyesterday at 3:02 PM

No, I'm saying that you can't attribute any significant percent of the value of a Star Wars toy sold today to George Lucas. If Star Wars had not continued after the 1980 films, these toys would not keep selling so much today.

The post I replied to allocated all of the monetary value of the Star Wars branding of a toy to George Lucas personally, which I think is obviously wrong.

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