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John_Maxwell_IV comments on The Onrushing Wave - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: Douglas_Reay 18 January 2014 01:10PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 20 January 2014 05:02:19AM 4 points [-]

Market cap only represents the value those tech companies have managed to capture, though. I rarely click on Google's ads and therefore contribute little to their market cap, but access to search engines like Google has had a tremendous impact on my life.

Comment author: satt 22 January 2014 11:44:45PM 1 point [-]

Although the US didn't capture all of the losses from the War on Terror, either!