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Which is More Valuable, Apple or Wales?

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  • BarleyGB
    BarleyGB Posts: 241 Forumite
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    Wales
    IronWolf wrote: »
    I don't think Apple is the most valuable company in history, what about Standard oil?

    It depends entirely on that value of Wales' land, as the taxes don't seem to raise enough to cover its costs atm.

    East India Company?
  • antrobus
    antrobus Posts: 17,386 Forumite
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    IronWolf wrote: »
    I don't think Apple is the most valuable company in history, what about Standard oil?...

    Or Armaco, aka the Saudi Arabian Oil Company.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Wales
    Dutch East India Company, the South Sea Company. and the Mississippi Company I reckon are the most valuable ever at the top of the bubble.

    Value today? $0 between them although some value would have been released as the companies were liquidated in the C19th (?) most likely.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    Wales
    Why is that sad? Doesn't it show that we generally have a high standard of living such that we have large disposable incomes to waste on iPads?

    Despite the GFC global indebtedness has continued to increase. So correlations of the standard of living with Apple products. Are more related to illusion than to reality.
  • N1AK
    N1AK Posts: 2,903 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    That's not the same thing as saying Google has nil value, it's just a part of it does. The same can be said for Wales. Overall it makes a profit.

    Wales doesn't make a profit, some Welsh people and businesses do. Do you think the guy running a tourist hotel in Bangor is going to bother if you said you'd take all the profit? How long do you think Iceland (the frozen food company) would continue to be based there if you tried to tax it well above the UK equivalent rate?
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  • N1AK
    N1AK Posts: 2,903 Forumite
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    To answer the original question, I would choose Apple. It has a market cap of ~$740 billion USD. I'd sell the shares and be the richest man on earth by some margin.

    If I couldn't sell the asset then I'd probably still take Apple, as I have !!!!!! all chance of running a company or a country, but at least I could leave running Apple to its current management and harvest the profit while the good times roll.
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  • Loughton_Monkey
    Loughton_Monkey Posts: 8,913 Forumite
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    .......I guess in your ideal world the "wealthiest" company in the world would sell that shiny grease-proof non-adsorbent toilet paper they used to have back in the good old days .....

    Don't knock it.

    I had a University education and one of the few really important pieces of knowledge I came away with concerned this particular product.

    For the 4 years I was there, our [mens] Hall of Residence supplied such paper as normal. A request to move to soft paper was head of the list every quarter in the Student/Master liaison meeting. The head of the Hall was an aged Theology Professor who doggedly refused it. He remained absolutely and passionately of the opinion that it would "turn us all into homosexuals".

    Since the day I graduated, I have strongly believed that Andrex have an awful lot to answer for.
  • antrobus
    antrobus Posts: 17,386 Forumite
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    N1AK wrote: »
    To answer the original question, I would choose Apple. It has a market cap of ~$740 billion USD. I'd sell the shares and be the richest man on earth by some margin....

    That was basically my logic. Apple would be a lot easier to liquidate. I wouldn't want the grief of either being responsible for (a) a country, or (b) a major corporation. I'll take the cash option, thank you very much, and +$700 billion USD will do very nicely.:)
  • kabayiri
    kabayiri Posts: 22,740 Forumite
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    edited 9 March 2015 at 12:52PM
    Cool, an iPoll :D

    It's got to be Apple for me.

    Thousands of young n trendy somethings don't queue up at midnight for that latest brochure selling Rhyl sun centre!

    We can recreate Wales by waiting until Oil has relatively little value, and then....voila!! Scotland is the new Wales ! ;)
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
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    kabayiri wrote: »
    Thousands of young n trendy somethings don't queue up at midnight for that latest brochure selling Rhyl sun centre!

    Last time I went to Rhyl in the '70's the sea was full of turds bumping into us. To this day I don't know what possessed our parents to let us in the water.

    I'd still rather have a week in Rhyl than own one of the Apple watches being launched later. From what I've seen so far even Joe 90 would be embarrassed to be seen wearing one,
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