Assuming societal structure of world is held constant at 2018 state, how many roles would you say represent 80% of formal “power” in world?
Example: global fortune 500 CEOs, top 5 political figures of all non-tiny countries, mayors of big cities, top scientists/artists?
25k?
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Less than 20: only the few guys who can launch nuclear strikes. Nobody else is in the same league.
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Also Hedge Fund Guys, property developers, tech innovators. Maybe like 100k people? But power is quite diffuse, a lot of those ppl (Mayors of big cities, some CEOs) actually have very little power as their hands are almost completely tied.
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Also roles like heads of drug cartels, terror groups, mafia etc. v powerful.
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Governments/Political houses always represent more than 80% of power in the world. They control/rule the rest no matter what. Democracy is just optics.
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Can't make sense of this question. Power as in, power to do stuff that makes headlines? Formal as in it's an official written role?







