in the sixties there was a movie and the answer was: ma bell. now it would be different you'd think;

 

 in 2011 three swiss mathematicians mapped 37 million companies to see who actually runs the world and the results explain why everything feels rigged
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...........more.............