We'll find out. We have four companies worth over US$1T, adjusted for inflation this is larger than any time in history (including Rockefller IIRC). Who knows where this is going to go?

(I think about MMORPGs where stats just keep going up exponentially, like how in WoW classic, top DPS was like 500 and now its like 50,000. But that's just a game.)

For now it's not super clear since we have a lot more stuff in the world, a lot more money, and real ones, too, not just paper money. Actual production and services.

Developing countries, including China have added probably between an extra 30 to 60% more middle class folks with disposable income. That's going to grow because of India, Africa, South East Asia.

The bigger long term threat is the unsustainability of this, global warming and destruction of ecosystems.

That doesn't mean we'll avoid a major wealth wiping financial crash this decade but we'll get over it and continue to grow.

The "burning the planet" bit is the real killer.

> fall

Presumably what we saw as "fall" from the outside was Apple pouring hundreds of millions of $$$ into building M1, fixing design flaws in newer MacBook Pro lines etc.,

err I was referring to the 1980s and 90s long after the wild success of the Apple II

Heh sorry.

Reading various accounts it indeed was a precarious situation for Apple which could have gone either way.