"At a time when Google, Facebook, Visa, Mastercard, and other multinational corporations know intimate details about our private lives, governments still do not capture, let alone publish, the most basic statistics concerning the distribution of income and wealth.".....



In the US, FB as their sole subsidiary- Economic Innovation Group- bi-partisan quasi political organization using software platform totally developed by FB and using source data primarily from the Census Bureau has total access and control over the data. Yes, government does have access to all of this data. It's just that the politicization especially within the US keeps access to this data in proprietary form for distribution only through the political hierarchies etc. This is not public-access for a very basic reason. These guys are making money off of the Census Data. And, oh yes, the publish the results quite effectively among their PRIVATE financial LLCs. How in the world do you think groups like Knight and McKinsey get all their analyses. It's just private and circulated amongst the private Fund Groups to further consolidate market control and capitalization for their gains only. Per the Census original information, this is private information and should NOT be controlled by the quasi-political private groups, especially FB etc. Until the FTC, FCC, and SEC acknowledge their responsibilities to US citizens, or probably until there is a political overthrow of the present privatizing of data by these few businesses for their opportunistic resale, the common citizen is totally vulnerable and powerless. The individual citizen essentially has no rights and is just as blind to loss of ACCESS to even data that has been stolen to be used against them. With the organization of EIC group, the final reality is that all statistics from the initial sourcing by census bureau is totally under the distributory control of one group EIC. Welcome to the real behind the scenes monopoly, like I said, owned if not in name, in all practicalities by FB. Combine the Census data with everything else that FB controls, and you have the monopoly behemoth for 2020. No one in Congress will even touch the subject, and should have years ago. All organizational branches in DC are internally supporting the internal dissolution of sole proprietor opportunities and operational business platforms so there is absolutely no effective access to establish any private individual local business enterprise. What the US has now are short-term opportunities only to intermittent access to piecework and task functions that further allow total control opportunities of international MNE's to consolidate any market share left in the US. The most basic tasks of government have been and are continuing to be privatized to the opportunistic advantage of only a few against the many. How long can it go on? Well, it's been going gangbusters for 40 years so far.



If you want to continue kidding yourselves, go ahead, but give the rest of the world a break from the never-ending BS.