When anthropomorphically considered, the world is represented as being in a condition of eternal frustration, as it endlessly strives for nothing in particular, and as it goes essentially nowhere.
Just five companies, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Google, and Pfizer, now hold nearly one-quarter of all corporate cash, equal to more than a quarter-trillion dollars. (…)
Netflix is now responsible for about one-third of all Internet bandwidth. (…)
As the economy tanked in 2009, the top 25 hedge fund managers collectively earned $25.3 billion. On average, that works out to about $2,000 a minute for each manager. (…)
A 2008 Swedish study found that unemployed people gradually lose the ability to read. (…)
The combined assets of Wal-Mart’s Walton family is equal to that of the bottom 150 million Americans.
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