everyone on here talks about how left vs right politics is basically pro wrestling kayfabe to keep regular people at each others throats, which is true, but back in 2011 three systems theorists at eth zurich in switzerland actually ran a supercomputer model on 37 million companies and investors to see who really sits at the top of the pyramid (you can still read their original plos one paper here if you haven't seen it)

they weren't conspiracy guys at all, they were just mapping corporate stock ownership and proxy voting blocks. when the math came back they found that a tiny core of 1,318 corporations controlled the global economy, and right in the center of that sat a "super entity" of just 147 financial institutions that controlled 40% of the wealth of the entire network because they all held shares and voting power in each other

while i was reading up on how that study holds up today, i stumbled across an article breaking down what happened in the fifteen years since zurich published those numbers… especially now that passive asset managers and a single risk algorithm called aladdin quietly sit behind over 21 trillion dollars of the world's assets while ordinary people can barely afford groceries or a house

what really messed with my head is the second half of the writeup, where the author traces where that 147 network actually came from historically, and how our whole modern system of inflation, debt, and nonstop media outrage is set up to keep us too exhausted to look at the club running both sides

i'm not doing the whole timeline justice here, so i'll just leave the link if anyone wants to read the rest of the breakdown

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