“The mythical people in my head are bad people. Thinking this way is fine.”

Japan had a brief stint in the 40s too I think

İ wasn’t aware, thanks.

Do you mean the data input to create the diagram?

These are the first lines of the table (numbers are from the official Alphabet income statement)
Search advertising Ad revenue 162.45 148.951
Youtube Ad revenue 29.243 28.845
AdMob, AdSense & other Ad revenue 32.78 31.701
Ad revenue Revenue 224.473 209.497
Playstore and other Revenue 29.055 28.032
Google Cloud Revenue 26.28 19.206
Other revenue Revenue 3.028 0.902
Revenue Gross profit 156.633 146.698
Revenue Cost of revenue 126.203 110.939
Gross profit Operating profit 74.842 78.714
Gross profit Operating expenses 81.791 67.984

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A donut chart race, or a pie chart race, is another great chart to illustrate continuous or categorical data proportion over time. read more in this article (donut race chart), where I used Highcharts library, and I fetched the data from ourwolrdindata

I don't know man, ~90 billion in revenue is quite a lot...

> Perhaps one of the best-kept secrets of payroll taxes is that employees effectively pay almost the entire payroll tax, instead of splitting the burden with their employers.

> This is because tax incidence is not determined by law, but by markets. In fact, the person who is required to pay a tax to the federal government is often different than the person who bears the tax burden. Usually, the marketplace decides how the tax burden is divided between buyers and sellers, based on which party is more sensitive to changes in prices (economists call this “relative price elasticities”).

> It turns out that the supply of labor – that is, workers’ willingness to work – is much less sensitive to taxes than the demand for labor – or employers’ willingness to hire. This is because workers who need a job are not as responsive to changes in wages, but businesses are able to “shop around” for the best workers or shift production to different locations.

> This means that, rather than workers and employers each paying 7.65 percent in payroll taxes, employers send their portion of the tax to the government and then decrease workers’ wages by almost 7.65 percent. Next, workers pay their 7.65 percent share on those wages. In effect, there is hardly such a thing as the “employer-side” payroll tax, because almost the entire burden of the payroll tax is passed on to employees in the form of lower wages.

Source: https://taxfoundation.org/what-are-payroll-taxes-and-who-pays-them/

These are intercity buses though (Greyhound, Megabus, etc), not intracity ones. The people who used them weren’t doing a daily commute.

There may be some truth to your answer still, but it’s not quite that simple.

How do you guys do these tables?

I’ve always wanted to know this. They said before that they barely profit, but I need to know how true that is

I do, do you understand English? Because I’m not sure you do.

What if I’m developing a policy for a discounted medical treatment which is gender specific and will apply to those on incomes below X? I don’t really care why there’s a difference, I just need to know that there’ll be one in the supplies that I’ll need.

I’d wager your great concern is because you’re fixated on the use/conclusion of the data you have in mind.

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For me, this puts all those axed programs into a bit of perspective. With a profit margin of 21% of a whopping 60B dollars, it kind of doesn't really matter how profitable a program is if it can't grow big enough to make an impact on that. A couple of millions just won't matter to google.

Well, I don't know. Their main business is sooo huge, that it is very hard to match it. I wouldn't mind to be a major shareholder in Google.

Look up the Earth's axis tilt and how it and the earth's revolution around the sun combine to cause the sun to appear to move northward from (Northern) winter solstice to summer solstice and southward from June 20 to Dec 20. I guess I was lucky that Mrs. Collins spent a lot of time on the Earth and the Solar System in 3rd grade.

For one thing there’s a lot more to it than being something you can directly click on and purchase something. It’s also about branding and recognition. They want to make sure people know about their product or service.

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While the busses weren't running, people still needed to get to work. So they got a shitty car. Most of those cars still work.

OP: Could you please explain what the Gini coefficient of Income Inequality and the Index of Economic Freedom are?

Any parents here have any sound advice on how to get your baby to sleep more consistnetly?

I'm planning on being a father in the near future and while I accept my sleep schedule will be wild I want to do the best I can to ensure I'm not going to be a walking zobie at work during the early stages of the kids life.

But as we can see that isn’t working too well

The main thing I take away is that company-wide layoffs don't seem to be motivated by necessity. It's not like some giant unforeseen event just toppled their primary business model. If a correction was needed, it should be enough to reduce hiring in relevant divisions, or trim 1 or 2 % of those relevant divisions. Slicing off 6% of the entire company because you had a 5% decline in operating profit even with roughly a year's worth of gross profit in reserve is just ruthless and greedy as fuck.

People finally realized riding the bus sucks.

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