Posted on 12/29/2014 2:50:24 PM PST by Mike Darancette
"The aggregate effect of competitive capitalism is indistinguishable from magic, but we are so used to its bounty that we never stop to notice that no king of old ever enjoyed quarters so comfortable as those found in a Holiday Inn Express, that Andrew Carnegie never had a car as good as a Honda Civic, that Akhenaten never enjoyed such wealth as is found in a Walmart Supercenter. The irony is that capitalism has achieved through choice and cooperation what the old reds thought they were going to do with bayonets and gulags: It has recruited the most powerful and significant parts of the world’s capital structure into the service of ordinary people. And it would do so to an even greater degree if self-interested politicians in places such as India and China (and New York and California and D.C.) would get out of the way."
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Don’t tell the author but Microsoft is still worth more than Google.
Liberals are idiots and we know that. When explaining stuff like this to libs, tell them that the profit margin for Facebook (FB) and Apple (AAPL) are about 24% each, whereas the hated Walmart (WMT) and ExxonMobile (XOM) are 3.9% and 8.9% respectively. That speaks for itself, but, you have to really pound the point home when they say these should have unions and such...
Gates and his commie wife are Marxists libs and their MSNBC is a commie network.
Microsoft is currently worth about $90b and Google is currently sitting at $87.3b.
Considering that Microsoft has been around about a quarter century longer, it's pretty impressive what Google has done in less than 20 years of existence.
The real juggernaut is Apple, who were all but given up for dead back in 1998 when Google came on the scene.
Apple is worth some $111b and has had nearly $200b in revenue over the past year alone (more than both Microsoft and Google combined).
Apple is in uncharted territory and shows no sign of slowing down.
this should be breakin’. Oh it is. Why?
Apple makes money off of music (iTunes) and portable music players/cameras/phones now.
Google is essentially the US Government. So the numbers mean nothing.
Sinking so much money into a new eco-green - supposedly - and massive, hq, is a risk. Someone remarked that historically when a company’s done that, it was not a good sign for their future. Maybe apple bucks the trend, but without Jobs there so far nothing amazing has come out of there.
Where are you getting your numbers? I’m referring to market cap. And Google was once the largest but is now being part up by Apple and Microsoft.
MSNBC hasn’t been party of Microsoft for years
Don't forget networking equipment and licensing. That's the part that's invisible to the public but very important, for a long time now.
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