• zoloftt@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Wouldn’t that be part of the “maintenance” cost? If I run an ice cream cart, I need to keep purchasing supplies to keep selling ice cream.

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      2 days ago

      Technically yes I guess, but I would expect “maintenance” to refer to the cost of keeping the ice cream cart working and looking good, I wouldn’t expect the wholesale cost of ice cream to be in the “maintenance” column of my cart finances.

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        2 days ago

        Sure! I mean, my point was this stuff costs money. Wasn’t meant to be as technically correct as possibly.

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      2 days ago

      No, usually materials cost is tracked separately from equipment maintenance.

      • zoloftt@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        God dang people, maintenance is in quotes for a reason.

        Wasn’t supposed to be as technically correct as possible. Meant to express to the original person that things cost money, that’s it.

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          Good thing I stopped there instead of also getting into the difference between repair maintenance (your car’s broken O2 sensor) and regular maintenance (fix an identified security vulnerability) then.

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            I’m dying hahahahah! Yeah, depending on where you work that word carries a lot of baggage