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Apple and Goldman is not a David and Goliath story. It's more like the Ice Giants fighting it out with The Gods about when they borrowed the lawnmower (to borrow a phrase from Terry Pratchett). There's little we mortals can do against these forces that move heaven and earth.

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Apple has 20x the market cap, 5x the profit as Goldman, and almost the same profit margin. Relatively speaking, Apple has been able to move a lot more heaven and earth than Goldman for a long time now.

Apple produces iPhones, Goldman Sachs does financial engineering - its Asset Management division, in addition to $1.5T of their own assets, also manages $2.5T of customer's money. If necessary they can use those assets to further their agenda (by investing them in specific industries or companies). That gives them a lot more influence than Apple, which has to use their own cash for everything. That's why they had audacity to say they are doing "God's work" :)

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