Larry Fink and his Black Rock.
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The owners have no power. The people who manage it do. The old bugeoisie derived power from ruling their physical companies as kings. The proletariat is dependent on a company or other organization to pay them for their services. There is no longer a bugeois class; they have been replaced by a managerial class that is a proletarianized elite, including Fink. We live under a dictatorship of the proletariat where the people own the means of production.
But Fink isn't "the people." He is one person, one of a small handful who hold most of the wealth and power. It's a small club, and "the people" aren't in it. He also doesn't actually have to manage jack shit in a hands on way. His underlings to do all of the real work (to the extent an asset management firm does real work).
Fink is a proletarian dictator managing the means of production on behalf of the People. He does some work, such as sending those yearly letters to CEOs that tell them what to do. I never said this is good. My point is that Marx would be a fan, and the idea that capitalism is the antithesis of communism is silly.
-Bakunin
Marx is not one of "the People." Fink doesn't do shit on behalf of "the People" unless the financial elites are now "the People."