35. Concentration
Concentration describes how Power Capacitors can be hoarded by actors. This is sometimes done through active decision-making, though plenty of institutions are designed in such a way that Concentration is passive or inevitable.
It gets a little complicated when different types of Capacitors are mixed for this. Think of someone buying airtime on cable news to promote a tax cut that favors them (i.e., using money for influence on policy that results in more money).
But tbh, this Index is more focused on invisible Power Weapons, and plenty of folks have written extensively on this topic before... so this page will just have different perspectives to dive into if you're interested. As always, send me recommendations if you have them!
Wealth
Money:
- Harrington, Brooke. Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent. (2016)
- Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. (2013)
- Saez, Emmanuel & Gabriel Zucman. The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay. (2019)
Housing:
- Gray, M. Nolan. Arbitrary Lines. (2022)
- Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law. (2017)
- Stein, Samuel. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. (2019)
Governance
- Hacker, Jacob & Paul Pierson. Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer. (2010)
- Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. (1956)
Influence
- Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production. (1993)
- Hall, Stuart. Policing the Crisis. (1978)
- Herman, Edward S. & Noam Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent. (1988)