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[shiningfractal]

so the 5% export from all of Africa is 30 billion dollars

getting a normal profit margin of 10% will only net us 3 billion dollars per year

and we need at least 4 billion dollars to break even

ideally at least 8 billion dollars profit to make the operation a net plus

so we could scale back to do half the job

sell medicine for 13 million africans instead of 26 million

it would cost us 2,5 billion dollars per year, since the deployment cost is fixed

profiting just 10% from 5% volume of exports by reselling them we could raise the proper amount

but that would mean we would need a deal to buy the products at 10% discount (more reasonable than 50%)

and to break even our logistics couldn't cost more than half a billion

it is a very tight spot really

I doubt africa could tie more than 5% of its exports on the AIDS problem

still, providing treatment for half the people with funds strictly from africa itself is already a feat

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