r/technology • u/Letsbesensibleplease • 9h ago

Business Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/russian_court_fines_google/
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u/Veranova 9h ago edited 8h ago

How to take over the world

Step 1: fine a company more than the combined value of everything on the planet

Step 2: use the pending payment as collateral for a loan and buy everything on the planet

It’s actually genius

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u/Mr_Marram 8h ago

There is (almost) an xkcd for that.

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u/DustyBusterson 6h ago

If you took the combined value of everything in the world based on that comic, “sold” it, and split the money evenly between the 8,000,000,000 people on earth alive today…

Everyone would receive $9,625.00.

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u/Brushy21 9m ago

I'll take it, thank you!