Wealth: The Case Of The Koch Brothers

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Wealth, currently a legitimate form of corporate control, isolates the self interests of the wealthy with dangerously just and significant economic authority, exacerbating the equitable expression of self interests in the capitalist system. For example, let us consider the case of the Koch Brothers. Their private incorporation, Koch Industries, posted revenues of 115 billion in 2015 and employed near 100,000 people in the same fiscal year. Considering a profit margin of 5% on net revenue, the Koch Brothers, with their 84% voting share, control 5.75 billion of corporate surplus each year. Conversely, an individual who worked for the national average wage in the United States of America, 46 thousand, and with the same profit margin of 5% on their
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