Comment by tacocataco
2 years ago
How will the average person be able to easily keep track of all these corporations merging.
A free market requires the consumer to be fully informed and rational, I just don't see that being possible in this environment.
It's possible, there just needs to be someone willing to put the work in and to present the data in a manner that makes it accessable, easy to parse, and profitable enough to cover at least time and costs.
The work is building a database of filing locations and feeds (eg: public document feeds of each and every stock exchange, corporate filing register, etc) and builder parses to extract new names, boards of directors, name changes, major stock holdings, etc.
It takes some doing (*) - but with LLM's and advances in open software it gets easier every day.
( * Myself and a small team did this for the global mineral sector some years (15+) ago )
From 2016, only 10 companies control almost every large food and beverage brand in the world.
https://www.businessinsider.com/10-companies-control-the-foo...