unlike the virtual amazon forest,
black rock isn't playing the same game.
it owns the game board.

with trillions in aum
and controlling shares in thousands of companies,
it doesn't need to act.
it influences passively.

through index funds,
one fund after another,
i mean in a cue,
a moving belt.

it creates a neutral-sounding monopolization,
yet owns a silent seat at almost every table.

it's monopoly through abstraction.
ownership so soft
you mistake it for structure.

in theory,
it can overthrow any regime.
not with guns,
but with adjustment.

a shift in allocation,
a nudge in exposure,
and the top of any country
becomes the new haiti.