From:	"MARTIN E. GOTTHARD" <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: Nascent Megacorps
Date:	Sun, 1 Jun 1997 12:37:34 +1000

> World wide Coca-Cola sells 4,000 beverages per second. Now, let's just
> assume that the average price for a beverage is 50 cents, US. Let's make
> another assumption that they take one tenth of one percent of that, one
> half of a US cent, and turn it back into "development." That's two dollars
> a second. Get out your calculators and figure how much that is over a year.
> Sixty-three million dollars a year in liquid assets to expand your empire.
> Show me another corp with that kind of cash flow. I tell you, corporations
> are scary things.
>

In a word; Microsoft. Bill Gates makes about a million dollars per day
profit.

Another piece of interesting info; Bill Gates just eclipsed the Sultan
of Brunei (Oil) as the richest man in the world. The Sultan's been going
easy for the past decade or so, but he's apparently pissed that his
pre-eminence has been eclipsed and is looking to start expanding again.

The stock market is going to get rough if those two players get into a
pissing war.

One intersting note; If you stock in the CIA world factbook, the GDP per
capita of Brunei is about equivalent to that of Australia... mostly due
to the Sultan's income.

Marty