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Discontinued website theyrule.net had a really cool visual web of board members of high profile companies [0]. Amazing how many board members of one company are
by andirk 4y ago
Discontinued website theyrule.net had a really cool visual web of board members of high profile companies [0]. Amazing how many board members of one company are board members of a handful of others. It's like there's a breed of person who is just "board member".
[0] https://theyrule.net/ https://theyrule.net/
- thesuitonym 4y ago> It's like there's a breed of person who is just "board member". Typically known as "capitalists", the bourgeoisie, the 1%, etc.
- noasaservice 4y agoI like the term "Oligarchic kingmakers".
- marcosdumay 4y ago> the 1% How many are they again? I doubt there are millions of them on the US.
- klyrs 4y agoWhen many people say 1%, they're really thinking of the .01% or less.
- atq2119 4y agoMore like 0.1% or less.
- LeftHandPath 4y agoI once heard a joke that, in the right environment "If you know what you're doing and show a little enthusiasm, you'll wind up on 6 boards before you can turn around and realize what's happening". It makes sense that certain types of people would wind up on a lot of boards very quickly.
- lovich 4y agoIt’s called an interlocking directorate[1] and is why a lot of access to power and capital is class based and not meritocratic. It’s also part of why C level pay has skyrocketed as the members of the boards all happen to have C level positions and they all end up approving the pay increases of the people who get to vote on their pay increases [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocking_directorate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocking_directorate