you are forgetting that resources and time have been spent. not everything is pure profit. the capital represents human effort plus resources. those are gone forever. put it to you another way, if the window costs $500 to replace... only a fraction of that becomes profit. the net is negative. thats a lot of words to say something that took me a nanosecond to comprehend. "thing minus thing = less thing" - obvious truth "keynsian word salad" - midwits truth