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11-16-2010, 08:05 AM
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Top 100 economic entities: 49 countries, 51 corporations
Of the world's 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations and 49 are countries (2000)
According to a decade old survey, there are now more corporations than countries in the top 100 largest economys in the world. For example, General Motors, on this list, has more buying power than the country of Denmark and 23 other countries. I wonder if there are more now than ever or if the global recession have an impact on the amount of corporations Last edited by Dreaming Of Pandora; 11-17-2010 at 07:46 PM. 
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11-16-2010, 08:07 AM
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This list is quite outdated though, corporations would be a lot more powerfull now I'd say.
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11-16-2010, 07:59 PM
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11-16-2010, 06:24 PM
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That's pretty...erm.
 I'm not sure I'd trust corporations to literally rule the world one day, I mean, that's what got to Earth 2154 in the first place. A world completely ruled by profit margins... *shudder* It would be the end of democracy, and freedom, as we know it. 
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11-16-2010, 06:58 PM
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It's actually two faces of the same coin. Both are associations, the only difference is why people join.
On the first one, it's for birth. On the second one, it's for necessity or ambition. Whereas the first one is restrictive, the second one is degrading -turns anything into a matter of personal interests, and the clash between them it's not something nice. I miss the days when people collaborated and that was not forced. Oh, and...
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11-16-2010, 09:36 PM
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Well first of all, General Motors would've died if is wasn't for the stupid government to bail 'em out... So in that case, country + corporation = stupid.
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