big pharma, big tech, big oil - which has the most power?

If you look at the market cap of the industry, tech and oil are way way bigger than pharma. "Tech" can be defined different ways though, whereas oil is oil.

big oil is powerful and destructive, but it can't gain much more power than it already has

doesn't have to get anymore powerful than it already is; it could even decrease substantially in power and still destroy the world

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Without oil, there is no tech and no pharma. Plastics, glass, most manufacturing processes, most organic chemical components - all dependent on hydrocarbons, if not directly as feedstocks then the heat and electricity produced by them.

i think when i answered this i had misread the question as 'which is the worst'. i still think my answer is oil, but it's closer

i think when i answered this i had misread the question as 'which is the worst'.

feels like a lot of ppl in the thread did, or assume it's the same thing?

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