It is not new that a tiny minority of the world's population controls most of the world's resources and owns the biggest monopolies that our lives in many cases depend on.
What IS new is that this group is now exposed, as it is fairly simple to connect the dots using the vast information available on the web.
Here is a short documentary that lays out the facts and names, together with the numbers and statistics, of those global monopolies and who is behind them:
The world's richest 1% get 82% of the wealth (Oxfam)
Below is an example of monopolies in the food industry and the dates those companies were established. (The same thing can be done for any industry.)
- Mars, Inc., 1911, food processing
- Unilever, 1929, consumer goods
- Johnson & Johnson, 1886, medical equipment & pharmaceutical
- Procter & Gamble, 1837, consumer goods
- Nestlé, 1866, food processing
- Kraft, 1903, food processing
- Coca-Cola, 1886, beverages
- PepsiCo, 1919, beverages
- General Mills, 1866, food processing
- Kellogg's, 1906, food processing
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