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I don't think thats true at all...

These companies are absolutely money printing machines at the scale we have never seen.

Some of the individual standout figures:

Apple’s trailing 12-month net income is around US$99 billion. Microsoft’s trailing 12-month net income is about US$101 billion. Alphabet (Google) is estimated around US$111 billion net income.

On revenue, one list shows: Amazon ~$670 billion, Apple ~$408 billion, Alphabet ~$371 billion, Microsoft ~$281.7 billion.

Have you ever read the soverign individual? He kinda predicted this. Tech companies will rise into unfathomably rich while the countries inability to tax foreign revenues will lead to the collapse of the nationstate.



> don't think thats true at all...

Its all speculation, so it's not really going to be true or false until it happens (or the economy recovers without a crash).

Listing tech companies who have all pledged into AI certainly isn't reassuring me otherwise, that's for sure

>Tech companies will rise into unfathomably rich while the countries inability to tax foreign revenues will lead to the collapse of the nationstate.

So, we're going to crash but the tech companies will be okay for a little longer? Sure, we can phrase it that way.




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