You are not going to produce a tear in the fabric of space-time by running a similar comparison, you'd simply be wrong, and life will go on as usual. GDP is an

You are not going to produce a tear in the fabric of space-time by running a similar comparison, you'd simply be wrong, and life will go on as usual. GDP is an aggregated annual "earning", a market capitalization is the value of all the outstanding shares of an entity, not a periodic earning. A more meaningful comparison would be Apple's annual earnings ($260B, still quite a lot of money) vs a country's GDP, or Apple's market cap ($2T) vs the value of an entire country, rather than their latest GDP. "They're worth $2T, but they didn't make $2T this year, they made $260B".