&gt; Physical limits on some aspect of the system must intervene and impose a new law.<p>Just because Apple didn&#x27;t become the first trillion dollar public company by marketcap (lets assume that chinese bank ipo for a brief second didn&#x27;t count), doesn&#x27;t mean that it would have broken a physical limit on the system.<p>There was a time not long ago when 100 billion companies didn&#x27;t exist<p>and there was a time when private venture capital didn&#x27;t value new businesses at 1 billion dollars<p>although I don&#x27;t see the fundamentals to support such large companies, apple, or another company, isn&#x27;t breaking anything if it does achieve the ability to grow larger