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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

A rather easier way to look at it is groups like mars, coca cola etc, own probably half the shelf of "different brands" for a bunch of products. Between coke and pepsi that's probbaly 90% of the soft drinks you see on the shelf. J&J owns a huge chunk of the personal hygiene and baby market.

Whether it's quite at the point of "two companies own everything" yet, the trend is towards centralization and there are plenty of extant instances of what people might intuit as different brands being owned by the same company.

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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I mean that's literally what money is, a store of ability to force people without money to be able to do things. Its value is predicated on its compulsive capability, if it couldn't do that then it wouldn't have value.

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