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Zero profits in economic models are usually in the context of economic profits, not accounting profits. So yeah, kind of (though there's risk adjustment needed, but when you start bringing in real world stuff like that your econ 101 supply curve/demand curve abstraction really starts breaking down, there are far more sophisticated economic tools for that). Perfect competition doesn't also really exist so we're just being guided by the math.



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