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I'm with Richard Stallman on this. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/04/fixing-too-...

Banks have way too much power in both our politics and economy. We have to change that.

Thanks for the interesting read. I'm not 100% certain splitting the companies up would be the best alternative, but this definitely makes me ponder a bit. It makes sense to split up, but who would make the actual call? The shareholders? I'm assuming any CEO figure of the company would prefer to keep it growing so they can maximize their collective resources rather than splitting among smaller ones. Or maybe I'm missing some other incentives?

If RMS and NNT agree on something [splitting up dangerously large corporations], how can anyone disagree?

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