The Most Powerful Person In The World

Jaseer Kallingal
3 min readFeb 3, 2021

last year we saw the ascend of Elon Musk from the 50+ position to the world’s richest person. He just doesn't hoard the wealth. It is not a status game only, it's a matter of creating the new power that holds the key to world politics. Recently we saw, how destructive/powerful his tweets can be(Gamestonk!, Use signal, Bitcoin)

Okay, Not getting anything technical or serious. As we know, the world is controlled by the top 150 people. They are not at all politicians. They are pure businessmen. Politicians are the puppets in their hands.

Yes! even the most powerful person in this world, The POTUS, could not make the decisions not up to the extend.

How?

Lemme say an example. Whenever new tax reforms passed, the section of the society who gets the blow is obviously the middle class. They have moderate wealth and no lobbying power. The ‘Below Poverty line’ society is excluded from taxes. And the wealthy, pay less tax compares to the middle class. They always find loopholes and have immense lobbying power. if they don't like any reform, or they affect the percentage of cash flow, a huge chunk of printed papers flows into the hands of politicians and their allies.

It's just the world order. We are well aware of it.

Another set of people who control the world is ‘ those who write codes for google and Twitter’.

coding is a mixture of creativity and technical ability.

This is how the ‘privileged’ enjoys the immense leverage.

these people in big tech companies manipulate data. They are powerful enough to show what news to be fed to society. They control it. If you don't like it, just quit!

the news that pops out from these feeds is carefully selected by them. They share the news on their conviction. How? There are millions and millions of sites and Twitter handles. If we are searching for particular data, we will be reaching the sites or handles these programmers prefers. because the algorithm they wrote works that way.

the alternate way to tackle this issue is to be ‘More specific’. If you feel like reading about something, go to the trusted journal, you prefer.

Entering into internet search is a loop. You will move onto another webpage unknowingly. Finally, You end up nowhere.

It's a common scenario. I just open up Instagram(devoid of news) to read the message of a friend but in 2 minutes I might be watching some food review.

It's the power of media and the internet. It controls the emotions of the mob. They select governments and the system runs the world.

One simple example is the BJP reign in India. The party spend lots of amount on social media marketing and roped the best young minds from the top business institutions in the country and abroad. Also for the 2014 elections, they sought the service of Ogilvy and Mather, one of the biggest ad agencies in the world. Their campaigns went viral. They created a ‘vote bank’ among the urban educated middle class. The opposition parties relied on the traditional tactics and they were completely crushed. They don't even think ahead of their own strategy.

So manipulation game is controlled from IT hubs around the world, especially silicon valley.

Consuming the news selectively will be a cure to an extend. But then we will become biased. The technology drives us towards more left. the encrypted data sharing will enable to balance this. Anyway to live in the world full of background noises, use a headphone and brace yourself.

Be the best, think rationally, don't give too much attention to bragging noises.

Live fully!

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