Google hits a new milestone: $2 trillion
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Alphabet achieved a $2 trillion market cap milestone on Friday.

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, hit a new milestone on Friday: a $2 trillion market cap.

Google is now the world’s fourth most valuable public company, right behind Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, which has a market cap of just over $3 trillion and overtook Apple earlier this year for first place.

    • MakePorkGreatAgain@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      so you only use paper money, dont get paid via direct deposit, dont use any modern banking mechanisms like debit cards linked to your bank account?

      how do you even function?

    • Glowstick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      What do you mean by “real”? The paper is literally worthless by itself. It’s only worth anything because we’ve all agreed on it. It’s the same exact situation with the digital zeros and ones.

        • Glowstick@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 months ago

          The point is that if you’re doing anything besides direct bartering of physical goods, then you’re trading in something that has basically no actual inherent value. Paper bills, gold, whatever, doesn’t matter. The vast majority of its value comes from our mutual agreement that it has value as a trading device.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            2·
            7 months ago

            I keep trying to tell gold bugs who claim that gold has inherent value that you can’t eat it and it’s impractical for building a shelter, so no it doesn’t.