Meet the 25 Billionaires Who Control Everything (per Brookings Institution)

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14. Lenin declared that “A few hundred multi-millionaires and millionaires

control the destiny of the world.”

Now make that billionaires instead of multimillionaires.

The powerful make the rules, leaving the weak to accept the reality presented and deal with it. Max Weber (1922 {1978}, as quoted in Wright, 2002) described this as such:

{Action that is motivated by self-interest can still be} substantively heteronomously determined... {in} a market economy, though in a formally voluntary way. This is true whenever the unequal distribution of wealth, and particularly of capital goods, forces the non-owning group to comply with the authority of others in order to obtain any return at all for the utilities they can offer on the market... (p. 110 {p. 839}).