It doesnt necessarily indicate the country is dependent on large companies just that they produce more companies of high value. Like South Korea is 4% of the top 500 but 20% of SK GDP comes from Samsung alone indicating they are more reliant on large company(s).

But I’m Westerosi!

No, just actually saying, for OP’s benefit, that it’s why the comment says “bastard”

That was my argument from the beginning though.

Wanna eat less meat? Fantastic. Just don't fool yourself into thinking you're saving some animals life, cause you're not.

The chart contains number of top-500 companies, not market capitalisation in general.

So the US has more companies in the top-500 list perhaps because companies grow big faster in th US due to access to a huge and rich home market. Probably a whole lot of smaller companies in Europe, as the GDP is similar (I know, I know cant compre exactly like that).

Just means that American companies tend to grow to the top-500 size more often

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>Well, you'd be wrong to think it doesn't matter or make a difference "in any meaningful degree."

Can you give me examples of people who have been harmed by these votes, and the events which caused the harm?

The links you sent appear not to be related to a problem around phantom shares and their voting rights, but instead relate to how companies handle the tax implications of FTDs. I don't know what percentage of the FTDs are caused by the phantom share issue you are talking about, but the entire problem the author highlights is that brokers are failing to keep track of which revenue is taxable versus which is not.

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Technically the Canada and the UK as well

Haven't they had 3 massive rain events recently? Interested to see how this changes after all that adds in.

Nice. But the vertical dots should not extend below zero nor above 100 since data cannot go there.

Ah yes... Hong Kong country ...

Really really cool. Going to share with a bunch of people at my work.

You mean enticing people to invest that otherwise would not / who are just putting it in savings?

Aside from that, yeah, I don't disagree that index funds are good in many respects.

Within context of this discussion, they would be performing better for individuals and the pensions and so on without all the legal and illegal lobbied-for loopholes that result in skimming and manipulation. It could be effectively argued through the links here and a few others (and, for example, a book titled Naked, Short, and Greedy that lays a lot of this or very clearly, in both data and abstractly) that the middle and lower classes have been... robbed... of billions and billions and billions (and billions) of dollars over the past decade alone.

It's showing that the US has the largest amount of countries in the top 500.

Combined 14% between all of those countries other than India, India was a typo

It's ridiculously rainy here in California but reservoir levels in the state are still not to historical levels because of the prolonged drought we've been in.

Here's the interactive version, which is updated hourly

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Data and Tools
The data on water storage comes from the California Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) Data Exchange Center. Python is used to extract the data from this page hourly and wrangle the data in to a clean format. Visualization was done in javascript, HTML and CSS and specifically the D3.js visualization library.

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Really interesting analysis, thanks for sharing. If one was trying to save more lives this would suggest switching from chicken to beef, but beef is by far the worst for the environment.

relevant PBF comic

This isn’t necessarily a good thing. … People may be shell-shocked from pandemic, political & ideology division, anti-intellectualism and social media warping our sensibilities.

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The real one is being kept in warehouse 13 that's just a replica

From an environmental perspective a bigger issue is that we convert natural wild lands into farms to raise animals for meat. This kills wildlife and reduces biodiversity.

Land use is an important component. Natural forest and grassland gets razed and turned into farms when demand for meat increases. It kills wildlife and biodiversity. Reducing meat consumption s good for land use, and beef in particular produces a lot of methane gas which is bad for climate change.

One thing to remember is that stock markets and countries are not comparable.

A company making X per year in Italy will be valued at Y.

Another similar company making X per year in the US will be valued at 2Y.