Google’s parent company, Alphabet, hit a new milestone on Friday: a $2 trillion market cap.

Google is now the world’s fourth most valuable public company, right behind Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, which has a market cap of just over $3 trillion and overtook Apple earlier this year for first place.

    • Glowstick@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I make wool.

      You make bricks.

      I need your bricks, but you don’t need wool.

      How do i buy your bricks?

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        2 months ago

        I’m not talking about the concept and use of money(which it’s supposed to be backed in something real) I’m talking about the electronic system of money, which are just an unreal electronic bunch of numbers backed up in nothing, maybe if the countries economies return to be backed at least in something real it would be better for the world’s economy.

        Edit: to give you a practical example, do you think if you add up the money that supposedly exists in all the banks worldwide, is there something physically real that represents that value? Or what is the same, could you buy everything that exists and still have money left over?

        The actual problem it’s modern economy it’s backed in nothing else than zeros into an electronic economic system, so it will only benefit to the most wealthy 1%.

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        Simple. You trade wool for a club, then use the club to take the bricks. Finally, use the club to take back your wool. Perfect economic system!