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hedoratoday at 1:38 PM1 replyview on HN

In the UK, google extracts one average lifetime retirement savings per person in revenue, on average. You could argue that Google’s customers, like advertisers, propaganda firms, etc, all overpay for the data.

That seems unlikely, since I don’t see how many of them could be profitable if they were paying Google more than their own revenue.


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lurk2today at 2:19 PM

> In the UK, google extracts one average lifetime retirement savings per person in revenue, on average.

Those numbers don’t make any sense. Alphabet had 403 billion in revenue in 2025. The UK’s population is around 69,000,000. This amounts to $5,840.57 per person, which is nowhere near a lifetime of retirement savings.