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Take for instance Apple, one of the largest corporations to ever exist on planet earth according to its market cap. It's worth what $2 trillion now? I don't know.
Apple is sitting on a portfolio of assets. One of the assets they have is their iPhone business, which costs $X to run and brings in $Y.
Since Apple has already made a bunch of money, it is sitting on umpteen trillion dollars. With leverage, they can multiply that to probably hundreds of trillions of dollars.
Apple ran out of things to invest that money in a long time ago. The iPhone business, as profitable as it is, is only a line item on its investment portfolio. So Apple takes its earnings and uses it to buy back shares of its stock, in addition to paying out dividends.
Now, ask yourself this question: What is the biggest threat to Apple, Apple's shareholders specifically? What would cause shares of Apple to fall in value, or the dividends to stop flowing?
If there was a business they could invest their profits and assets in, that would be wonderful news for the shareholders. The stock price would shoot up. Although dividends might be lean for a few years, rest assured that they will be healthy once investment in the business stops. But there are no new businesses Apple can conceive of. There is no one out there with any good ideas on how to make even more money.
Apple's biggest risk isn't that people stop buying iPhones. Sure, the stock price trembles every time news comes out that Apple is losing market share in China or whatever. But people aren't investing in Apple because they have a fantastic iPhone line. No, they invest in Apple because they hold tremendous assets all across the board in every industry and have been pretty good with investing their assets over time.
If Apple hires a bunch of investors to invest their money, and they make some really, really bad gambles, and they end up losing all their investments (a good example would be "they went short on GME before this nonsense started with GME" -- billions and billions in losses) and THAT would devastate Apple.
That's my point. If there were a successful business in Europe, Apple would buy it, or invest heavily in it, or partner with it, or whatever. But there is not. You Europeans work your butts off on projects that aren't worth working on and that will never make money. Blame it on your government or whatever, regardless, you will never create a trillion dollar business in Europe because it is Europe.
You think "Oh I am working hard so I should get paid well!" What nonsense! No one in America except losers think that way. No, we search and search for something we can do well that is worth doing, and we do that. We don't expect to get paid for our work because it is work. We hold ourselves accountable to find something worth doing. If we are working in an industry that is failing, we change careers. For instance, I used to write software, and was very good at it, and made a lot of money doing it, but now I am raising animals. I intend to be very good at that and deliver a top-quality product at a fraction of the price the grocery stores charge. I intend to do all that while working less than 20 hours a week. I do not expect to get paid for my work, in fact. I expect to get paid because I created something worth creating.
Now, Apple is an investment company. They want the economy to be stable and predictable. They don't want guys like me to reinvent the internet and turn everything upside down again. That's why Apple hires guys like me and keeps them busy on pointless projects and pays them just enough that they don't quit and find another job, but not so much that they quit and start a farm.
See the problem? Apple will never innovate ever again. Amazon, Microsoft, all of these big "tech" companies do not innovate, and never will. They are in fact in the business of stopping innovation, because innovation hurts their investment portfolio. In the rare case where something escapes and is a risk to their investments, they buy it and quash it like a bug. I've seen this countless times.
I used to work for Amazon BEFORE they were profitable, and before they owned almost every server on the internet. The mood was different. Bezos wanted new ideas and new businesses and innovation. Once it became clear that Amazon had solved the server hosting issue and was going to become the only place you could get servers cheaply, they stopped innovating. They stopped exploring. They stopped building. They pretty much fired or let all the smart people go, and hired pajeets to put out fires from time to time. Do you see the issue? Do you understand why typically startup CEOs are asked to leave to make room for investment company CEOs once their assets grow large enough?
> you will never create a trillion dollar business in Europe because it is Europe.
I don't think it's possible anyway. It's not like the big corporations in the US just emerged on their own - Americans LOVE corporations, and when McDonald's opens a place, they'll rather eat their goyslop than eat anything else or cook. Americans are such rampant consumerists that whatever bullshit is thrown in their general direction, they'll buy it, supporting corporations (even scams) up to the point they grow big enough to become international.
Just think about what a big pile of shit McDonald's is. Do you believe they *deserved* their success? They are not doing well in Europe, because people are not such mindless, uncritical consumers.
Let's assume McDonald's would naturally seek to saturate the market, meaning they'd build as many shops as profitable. [This](https://electroiq.com/stats/mcdonalds-statistics/) shows a distribution of shops by country:
(Country, Population, Saturation assuming US has 100%)
The point being, it is the US market itself that allows corporations to become big because people are the most vivid consumers on the planet, and it has the highest quantity of White people centralized into one country. The language barrier is also a problem btw, which the US doesn't have.
But anyway, my original point was this:
> Big corporations reside mostly in the US, which are sitting on their products and services and do NOTHING new for ages.
Remember that "contribution" means "taxes", and the productivity per capita by country varies based on how well the country does economically.
And to think that Americans are naturally highly productive ingenious people who make more money per capita is nonsense. As I said, they have a better economy, they can do work where they sit 24/7 and do nothing and get paid royally. They get paid 2-10 times as much for the same job as in Europe (requiring the same skills), so they pay much more taxes. Thus they have a higher "contribution" and rank higher.
There is no "secret sauce" mentality. Your country is rewarded for being the primary jewish fortress. You can afford to clown around much more than any other people on the planet. It has a price though: Having many niggers and shitskins, and extinction.
Apple is sitting on a portfolio of assets. One of the assets they have is their iPhone business, which costs $X to run and brings in $Y.
Since Apple has already made a bunch of money, it is sitting on umpteen trillion dollars. With leverage, they can multiply that to probably hundreds of trillions of dollars.
Apple ran out of things to invest that money in a long time ago. The iPhone business, as profitable as it is, is only a line item on its investment portfolio. So Apple takes its earnings and uses it to buy back shares of its stock, in addition to paying out dividends.
Now, ask yourself this question: What is the biggest threat to Apple, Apple's shareholders specifically? What would cause shares of Apple to fall in value, or the dividends to stop flowing?
If there was a business they could invest their profits and assets in, that would be wonderful news for the shareholders. The stock price would shoot up. Although dividends might be lean for a few years, rest assured that they will be healthy once investment in the business stops. But there are no new businesses Apple can conceive of. There is no one out there with any good ideas on how to make even more money.
Apple's biggest risk isn't that people stop buying iPhones. Sure, the stock price trembles every time news comes out that Apple is losing market share in China or whatever. But people aren't investing in Apple because they have a fantastic iPhone line. No, they invest in Apple because they hold tremendous assets all across the board in every industry and have been pretty good with investing their assets over time.
If Apple hires a bunch of investors to invest their money, and they make some really, really bad gambles, and they end up losing all their investments (a good example would be "they went short on GME before this nonsense started with GME" -- billions and billions in losses) and THAT would devastate Apple.
That's my point. If there were a successful business in Europe, Apple would buy it, or invest heavily in it, or partner with it, or whatever. But there is not. You Europeans work your butts off on projects that aren't worth working on and that will never make money. Blame it on your government or whatever, regardless, you will never create a trillion dollar business in Europe because it is Europe.
You think "Oh I am working hard so I should get paid well!" What nonsense! No one in America except losers think that way. No, we search and search for something we can do well that is worth doing, and we do that. We don't expect to get paid for our work because it is work. We hold ourselves accountable to find something worth doing. If we are working in an industry that is failing, we change careers. For instance, I used to write software, and was very good at it, and made a lot of money doing it, but now I am raising animals. I intend to be very good at that and deliver a top-quality product at a fraction of the price the grocery stores charge. I intend to do all that while working less than 20 hours a week. I do not expect to get paid for my work, in fact. I expect to get paid because I created something worth creating.
Now, Apple is an investment company. They want the economy to be stable and predictable. They don't want guys like me to reinvent the internet and turn everything upside down again. That's why Apple hires guys like me and keeps them busy on pointless projects and pays them just enough that they don't quit and find another job, but not so much that they quit and start a farm.
See the problem? Apple will never innovate ever again. Amazon, Microsoft, all of these big "tech" companies do not innovate, and never will. They are in fact in the business of stopping innovation, because innovation hurts their investment portfolio. In the rare case where something escapes and is a risk to their investments, they buy it and quash it like a bug. I've seen this countless times.
I used to work for Amazon BEFORE they were profitable, and before they owned almost every server on the internet. The mood was different. Bezos wanted new ideas and new businesses and innovation. Once it became clear that Amazon had solved the server hosting issue and was going to become the only place you could get servers cheaply, they stopped innovating. They stopped exploring. They stopped building. They pretty much fired or let all the smart people go, and hired pajeets to put out fires from time to time. Do you see the issue? Do you understand why typically startup CEOs are asked to leave to make room for investment company CEOs once their assets grow large enough?
I don't think it's possible anyway. It's not like the big corporations in the US just emerged on their own - Americans LOVE corporations, and when McDonald's opens a place, they'll rather eat their goyslop than eat anything else or cook. Americans are such rampant consumerists that whatever bullshit is thrown in their general direction, they'll buy it, supporting corporations (even scams) up to the point they grow big enough to become international.
Just think about what a big pile of shit McDonald's is. Do you believe they *deserved* their success? They are not doing well in Europe, because people are not such mindless, uncritical consumers.
Let's assume McDonald's would naturally seek to saturate the market, meaning they'd build as many shops as profitable. [This](https://electroiq.com/stats/mcdonalds-statistics/) shows a distribution of shops by country:
(Country, Population, Saturation assuming US has 100%)
- United States: 15000 (330M) - 45.5
- Germany: 1500 (82M) - 18.3
- France: 2200 (68M) - 32.2
- Hungary: 111 (10M) - 11.1
- Poland: 546 (37M) - 14.8
- Norway: 79 (5.5M) - 14.3
The point being, it is the US market itself that allows corporations to become big because people are the most vivid consumers on the planet, and it has the highest quantity of White people centralized into one country. The language barrier is also a problem btw, which the US doesn't have.
But anyway, my original point was this:
> Big corporations reside mostly in the US, which are sitting on their products and services and do NOTHING new for ages.
Remember that "contribution" means "taxes", and the productivity per capita by country varies based on how well the country does economically.
And to think that Americans are naturally highly productive ingenious people who make more money per capita is nonsense. As I said, they have a better economy, they can do work where they sit 24/7 and do nothing and get paid royally. They get paid 2-10 times as much for the same job as in Europe (requiring the same skills), so they pay much more taxes. Thus they have a higher "contribution" and rank higher.
There is no "secret sauce" mentality. Your country is rewarded for being the primary jewish fortress. You can afford to clown around much more than any other people on the planet. It has a price though: Having many niggers and shitskins, and extinction.