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"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 an
by jacobush 7y ago
"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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9XeyBd_IuA
- amanaplanacanal 7y agoIt'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 7y agoI 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...
- inflatableDodo 7y agoTop 100 Corporate and National economies, by revenue - https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/resources/corporations_vs_governments_final.pdf 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-100-economies-31-countries-69-corporations 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-uT-IJ:https://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/miga/world-s-top-100-economies-31-countries-69-corporations+ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Qt-r1E...