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BelgianMadCow

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13. Well, who do you think the 600 corporate lobbyists involved in the TPP represent?

Reply to CincyDem (Reply #12)

Fri Nov 15, 2013, 08:15 AM

Nov 2013

If not these mega-corps?

I do agree with you that, say, the banking cartel, Big Pharma, Big Oil and the MIC are bigger problems. Hence my edit to include the second picture.

Personally, I find the graph of concentration insightful because it helps dispell the illusion of choice when one walks down the isle.

What we're trying to "solve" here is that power corrupts, and such concentrated power will therefore corrupt very strongly.

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