@edc128e6 Indeed. And the insane thing is, once you hit one trillion in value, you need to get to two trillion. And once you get to two trillion, you need a clear pathway to three. And now that they're at three trillion give or take a couple hundred billion depending on market mood, you know what's next. It's utterly bonkers. Apple is a fricking nation. Where does it stop? When is enough? Ten trillion? All the money in the world? Then what? 

 @edc128e6 I wish a company like Apple would just say, screw it, we're going to spend a trillion dollars in a new nonprofit division, working with, say, the UN, aimed at mitigating the climate crisis on every front imaginable, in every way imaginable, worldwide, starting now. It sure isn't going to be Google that does it. It sure isn't going to be . . . heh . . . Tesla that does it. 

But Apple could pull it off. Apple wants to be a nation? Be a nation then. But a good one. 

 @2f51dd5c I hear what you’re saying. It’ll never happen. Not because it’s Apple. Because that’s just not how the world works. It never will. At least in Apple’s case they are creating products that have given folks enjoyment and possibilities in work and play. 

Whether that’s a good thing or not only history can judge because we certainly can’t while we’re in the middle of living through it.