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20 perhaps, but just about. Probably not 10 years and certainly not 5 years ago (obviously they are way faster now, but from the perspective of normal users running software design…

Or people could just stop buying Mars bars and other ultra-processed foods if they feel they are overpriced which would force corporations to adjust their policies. Mars, Nestle, M…

The population collapse in New England happened only a couple of years before the Plymouth colony was established though (they didn't have any meaningful contact with the Spanish c…

Europeans didn't really get to most of the more isolated inland areas in the Americas until the 1600s or well after that, though.

Well Chinnese companies are way more efficient, Deepseek did manage to get quite far with a relatively tiny number of staff and limited funding. Then you have companies like Meta w…

Do you have any evidence to back this claim?

> This is one of the most successful investment companies It was for a long time. There is not a lot of evidence that's still the case (so far at least but even if the crash comes …

It seems like of the most outdated and inflexible indicators that's widely used though? Does not account that a much higher proportion of the US economy might be represented in the…

Why single out Australia though? I mean one conclusion that can be made from arguments like this is that if you do commit genocide and ethnic cleansing you better go all the way an…

In plenty of cases it's absolutely self evident (especially when there are plenty of historical precedents for similar or analogous situations). Yes you can get involved in extende…

What if the majority of the ancestors of some individual Anglo Saxon Australians immigrated in the 1980s. Do they have a moral and legal obligation to personally contribute to this…

Slippery slope is not a "fallacy" by default. It can be occasionally but its a perfectly reasonably argument in plenty of cases.

No? I don't think there is a way to meaningfully change the layout for non trivial charts?

Globally in relative terms? Kind of. Sure the gap to the US was huge but it still controlled pretty much entire Africa and much of Asia (with China and Japan obviously not doing gr…

> But at a fundamental level, the S&P500 index exists to track the market No, it exists to track a subset of the market based on specific criteria and weights. It's not even based …

Assuming it's share price does not drop significantly because of that.

> what an index describes vs what investors prefer What makes you think S&P 500 did not become the most popular index (instead of full market ones) because of the rigid entry crite…

> The 409a has a lot of words and numbers to justify a particular valuation That's tangential. The valuation is based on supply and demand, nothing else. Amongst other things the s…

> The purpose of an index is to provide a benchmark of the market Usually a subset of the market based on specific criteria. Total market indexes and funds exist, maybe there is a …

> There is plenty of money in the market Their float will be very small so yes, the value of their shares that anyone could buy at even the most optimistic valuations would be tiny…

> accurately reflect the market. When S&P rules end up excluding a significant part of the market with trillions Define what that means? The weights are based on the value of share…

Neither? What makes you think it was supposed to be a benchmark for either. Amongst other thing weights are based on the value of shares that are traded publicly, not market cap.

S&P 500 weights are based the value of shares available on the public market not the market cap. Based on that SpaceX will be nowhere near the top 10. Do you think their valuations…

> out unstable, illiquid questionable So Space X, OpenAI, Anthropic? Those are perfect examples. It's unlikely their valuations could survive the IPO if their float wasn't extremel…

> the S&P 500 no longer reflects the actual market Well it was never intended to reflect the full "actual market". > no longer an adequate benchmark According to your definition it…