Date: Thursday, November 25, 1999, 9:09:57 AM
Subject: : Re: [mediacircus] The 20th Century
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>But if microsoft hadn’t grown like this, then we would be without
>microsoft-monopoly <http://www.ms-monopoly.com>
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>> At the end of the Twentieth Century there are a few stark realities.
>> Australia’s Gross Domestic Product, that is every thing that
>> the entire 20 million of us produce and have taken over two hundred years
>> to reach, is worth obout 300 billion. Our government
>> controlls about a quarter of this sum. Universities in Australia cost maybe
>> 2 billion.
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>> Investors have placed more than 640 billion dollars into MicroSoft, almost
>> twice Australia’s annual GDP. MicroSoft was founded
>> in 1982. (General Electric is worth 290 billion, IBM, 150 billion, Exxon
>> 110 billion, Wal-Mart 100 billion.) 50 of the world’s largest economies are
>> now corporations.
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>> more to come…