no, more like someone's instance gets pwn-ed and is now part of a botnet and DO is getting calls and or isp-blocked and has to devote staff time to the incident.
you, personally, may be a high margin customer, but some,
and perhaps a lot, of the $5/no customers are potential liabilities due to not patching software or libraries or choosing terrible passwords for their services, databases, etc.
one decent incident can cost a multiple of a year's revenue for the account.
Google has a history of age discrimination and losing in court, going back to the founders of the company.
See Reid v Google where Brian Reid, a key developer of the tech we use, was told his ideas "were too old to matter" and that he was an "old fuddy duddy."
unless someone has a plan to burn and spew the old cells into the atmosphere, causing the earth to heat up, it will never be as big a problem as gas cars.
(that is the worst case, where auto makers just bury the cells in the ground. thankfully, that's not actually the case. they reuse battery packs and are scaling up techniques to recover the rare metals from them. you haven't heard much about this at scale because few packs have actually hit their end of life.)
that's what the model 3 does. it induces resistance in the motor at 0 rpm to generate heat which is then transferred to the coolant loop to heat the battery.
but in order to warm up the very large battery pack, on a cold morning you need to turn the car on (well) before you start driving to have it warm enough for full regen.
if you're a spy using it to hide your identity from websites when you visit, it would be good for your VPN to have a mix of normal activity and spy activity. If you run your own, it's going to have a weird pattern of traffic that might stand out to a website with decent analytics.
I would call the IRS up and ask them what a payment plan would be like for an n million dollar liability, and then weigh whether that scenario is worth the exercise. Because at this point, this is a question of risk tolerance, and risk vs reward.
For some people, a lifetime of debt, no matter what the possible reward, is unbearable, whatever the odds of the outcome. For others, who feel this is their best shot at wealth, and who are comfortable with the risk, it's an easy choice to buy the options.
But yes, get a tax advisor who is familiar with this specific situation (exercising stock in whatever state/country you live in, e.g California) and find out what the various scenarios are.
Anecdote: I and co-workers of mine have been in this scenario. It worked out for some and was a burden for others. Good luck!
I am not a tax lawyer, but here's what I imagine are the benefits to the IA over increasing salary.
By owning property, a foundation benefits by having an asset that increases over time, as well as collecting rent (below-market, but enough to cover expenses).
- Paying more to employees sends your money elsewhere.
- Buying property and renting it to your employees sends your money back to yourself, covers the expenses associated with that asset, all while enjoying the increase in value of that asset