147 corporations control the entire world

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AbbathTheGrim on 22 October 2011

OMFG they found the Patriots!

Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

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NKAJ on 23 October 2011

Kasz216 said:

A bit late to this... so people might miss it, but the New Scientist is a "non peer reviewed journal."

If that's not explanitory enough for you.....

haha nice way of making a point. However as usual the title is an exaggeration, the abstract I read simply argued that the tree is being redrawn and developed.

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HappySqurriel on 23 October 2011

How can these firms control the majority of the economy, when over 50% of private non-farms GDP is made up of small businesses that are not publicly traded?

It isn't surprising to hear that a few large corporations have significant control over the majority of large corporations, but that is substantially different from controlling "the entire world" ...