u/Collective_Altruism

Cross-posted from my substack. Image made with the OWID data editor (original). Data source is the OECD.

Cross-posted from my substack. Image edited in photopea (free online photoshop alternative). Data source is the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (non-profit think tank).

Cross-posted from my substack. Image edited in photopea (free online photoshop alternative). Source is the National Women's Law Center (based on public data).

Cross-posted from my substack. Image edited in photopea. Data from the OECD, processed by OWID.

I post bi-daily graphs related to social ills to my substack, and I decided to start cross-posting some of them here (this chart is my most recent one). As you can see, more than 80% of US market share in the record label industry falls under three conglomerates: Universal, Sony, and Warner. I think this is worrying to say the least.

I based this chart based on the data by Billboard.com. Other sources may give slightly different numbers, and it becomes harder to estimate the more you zoom out, but everyone agrees it's roughly in this ballpark e.g. while we don't know the exact numbers, it seems there is a general consensus that on the global level these three (in this order) have about three-quarters of the market share.

Cross-posted from my substack. Image edited in photopea (a free photoshop alternative). Source of the data-analysis is ITEP, specifically Michael Ettinger. It shows how the wealth-redistribution of the tax-and-spending megabill (the one signed into law by Trump on July 4th that gave enormous amounts to the richest Americans) would've gone if it had been evenly redistributed to ordinary families instead.

Cross-posted from my substack. I edited the image in photopea (a free online photoshop alternative). This data on lifetime earnings comes from "The Urban Institute" (non-partisan think tank).

Cross-posted from my substack. Image edited in photopea (free online photoshop alternative). Data comes from "Varieties of democracy" (2025 data, so I might make an updated image in the future).

Cross-posted from my substack. Edited in photopea, data by CEPR

Image made in photopea, crossposted from my blog, based on data by World Inequality Database (which is based on surveys and tax tabulations, so likely less accurate for the top 0.01%).

Cross-posted from my substack. I edited it in photopea (free photoshop alternative). Data comes from Gallup 'state of the global workforce 2026 report'.