[jacobush]

"You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and 𝙀𝙭𝙭𝙤𝙣. Those are the nations of the world today."

The Network (1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9XeyBd_IuA

[inflatableDodo]

Top 100 Corporate and National economies, by revenue - https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/r...

edit - there was a World Bank blog post about this, but it has mysteriously disappeared.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/miga/world-s-top-10...

here's google's cached version -

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Qt-r1E...

[amanaplanacanal]

It's interesting how much has changed since that movie came out. What was then shocking, now is mundane. Watching it now it's hard to see what the fuss was about. We've just all gotten used to it.

[jacobush]

I know. I thought the same when watching it the last time. What struck me is we are still yelling (on the keyboard) to our 21 inch screens...