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Overview of Mega-Corporations

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?Ten mega corporations serving up to five billion people around the world controls everything you buy from cloth to food products. Their products are a network chain working together to form companies like the 84 billion dollar corporation of Proctor & Gamble producing medicine, toothpaste, almost every hygienic product to high-end fashion serving 4.8 billion people alone. Another corporation is worth 200 billion dollars, Nestle, and the list goes on with Unilever, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s, Mars, Johnson and Johnson, and finally Kraft. Let’s jump to media, where 90% of everything we watch, read, or hear, is owned by just six companies down from 50 in 1983. Those companies are GE, New-Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner and CBS. Those companies made 275.9 billion dollars profit just in 2010. Then we see the bank mergers, where 37 world banks just became 4 controlling 54% assets of the world. Those businesses are conducting unethical behavior, consolidating whatever they can and stopping any new ones from emerging, yet providing and big number of jobs for the world in a very competitive market. It is widely known that our economy works on a competitive market, and without competition, the market will crash, yet for those companies there isn't any competition anymore. Same companies serving all the people around the world in every household. Consumers are led to believe they are choosing among competitors, when many different products are made by the same company. Jumping into debts, how can you control 4 large world banks when they own half the world’s assets? Of course, media is no different, it is like a political representative but you don’t get to choose who represent you since 6 companies already took over 90% of the world’s media. Those companies are leading everyone into a false send of freedom and choice when the money is going to end up with them anyway. And since their path to control wasn’t so honorable, the more people encourage them, the more they grow into powerhouses. Since those giants have seized control, they have created the consolidation of household products, wealth and media. How they did it? Imagine a whole world ran by those companies and not governments, which is the real case at the moment. The only way to stand up to them is politically and enforcing rules and through high taxes. Yet after every rule violation or tax evasion, they emerge again. Just imagine with their resources and consider the rules they can bend an

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