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> can be many times richer than any nationstate The US economy flits around $22 trillion per year and the US budget last year was 30% of that. There isn’t a si
by ch4s3 5y ago
> can be many times richer than any nationstate
The US economy flits around $22 trillion per year and the US budget last year was 30% of that. There isn’t a single trillionaire in the world. The US government has the historically unprecedented ability to project hard power around the globe within hours of deciding to do so. Musk has little more than influence, and congress doesn’t seem to like him very much.
- RustyConsul 5y agoInternet, Grid, Rockets, astroid belt. You know there's a giant ball of platinum floating around just outside mars thats worth 1.7 Quintillian? Today does not represent tomorrow.
- LordDragonfang 5y agoWhile saying any nationstate might be hyperbole, it's fair to say they surpass all but the richest. The most recent figures I can find for Amazon's operating budget list it at well over $500B, which puts it within an order of magnitude of the single richest country in the world; it would end up in the top 10 if it were itself a country[1] Keep in mind also that a large part of the US's wealth is derived from having these nation-state-level corporations within its financial jurisdiction. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_budget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...
- RustyConsul 5y agoIf profits > tax && MultinationalProfits == True { totalWealthPercentage = totalWealthPercentage + Profits; Nationstate = nationstate + tax } Run that through alot of loops and eventually corporations aree biggeer than any nationstate Vec<Nationstate> by design of the system.