Densely-linked cluster of 147 companies control 40% of world’s total wealth – Boing Boing

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation

…it found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,”
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