Oligopoly Everywhere - by Adam Mastroianni
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From business to politics to science, the few get more. What do we do about it?
photo cred: my dad I recently wrote about how popular culture has become an oligopoly. A shrinking group of franchises and superstars own a bigger chunk of movies, TV, music, video games, and books. For example, before 2000, only about 25% of top-grossing movies were sequels, spinoffs, and remakes. Now it’s usually over 75%. The thing is, it’s not just culture. Oligopolies are on the rise pretty much everywhere you look. The story I’m about to tell you is necessarily a bit messy. There’s no such thing as a representative sample of all human endeavors. The data I have range from solid to…
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