Weird thing: with the expected caveats, if you took the 3 largest companies by market cap (Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple), they have a higher value than the Dutch East India Company at its peak. That's a company with a legally enforced monopoly and something like sovereign territory. If any of those three companies gets 3-4x bigger, it'll be the largest market cap in history.
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@ZachWeinersmith How do you compare cap? In inflation-adjusted dollars, or as e.g. a fraction of world's GDP, or somehow else?
