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We like to daydream about time travel nonsense, whereby due to some weird butterfly chaos effect, any small action can cause a drastic change in the timeline given a few years.
But rarely do we consider that this exact scenario applies to right now too. Maybe a decision to wake up earlier by 10mins to go outside and touch grass will lead to a cascade of opportunities that end up with you becoming the next CEO of some middle-sized company
My honest answer is: "No one, this is not a meaningful question, in the same way that 'who is the most powerful termite in the world' is not a meaningful question. Power resides in large organizations, and while those organizations may have figureheads, it is a mistake to assume those figureheads command the organization, rather than the organization compelling the figureheads."
That being said, if you want the conventional wisdom answer, the most recent Forbes power ranking (2018) said Xi Jinping followed by Vladimir Putin.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes\_list\_of\_the\_World%27s\_Most\_Powerful\_People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_list_of_the_World%27s_Most_Powerful_People)
The single most powerful man is Xi Jinping, no contest. Anyone after that is debatable but I don’t think it’s Putin. I’m going to name name a financial powerhouse like the majority holders in blackrock/vanguard or the Saudi King since they have a major ripple effect on nearly every company’s policy and financially strong arm most nations.
I mention them mainly because they have a larger reach than Putin who is kind of limited in his actions.
Agreed, if Xi decided to shut everything down in terms of manufacturing, the world economy would grind to a halt. We have given him so much power by having so much of our products being made there, all in the name of cheap labour.
And that’s *just* economically, not even mentioning their military, global financial influence, intelligence networks, political power and diplomatic influence. It’s unfathomably scary.
I’ve put some extra thought and heres a ranking I’ve come up with.
(???). Fill this spot if there is one unelected person who calls the shots at the White House/Pentagon (Jerome Powell?)
1. Xi Jinping
2. BlackRock/Vanguard group (DAVOS & friends)
3. Narendra Modi
4. Al Saud Royal Dynasty (King)
5. Vladimir Putin
6. Al Khomeini
7. Satya Nadella
Edit: I put king of Saudi Arabia over Putin due to relative global influence, OPEC and military alliance with the US as well as sheer royal family assets.
I'm curious why Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft) ranks higher than Tim Cook (Apple) or Sundar Pichai (Google) or Andy Jassy (Amazon). I'm not saying you're wrong—I haven't thought about the "most powerful" question much—
This is tricky for sure, I think they all have merit to contend for that position. I don't think I'd put Microsoft as powerful as apple/google here. I personally vote Google, it's not that hard to live a (relatively) Microsoft free life, but a fair bit harder to work without the services Google provides. Can elaborate more if necessary
The person/people you'll never hear mentioned in the news. Anyone that powerful is separated from the 'poors' by layers and layers of buffers.
Also you're confusing influence with power. People with that much wealth wield influence. People in power can fall/fail/be removed from power. People will influence...well they have lawyers and fixers for that sort of thing. At that level of influence any way.
Jeff Bezos is not the most powerful. But people like murdoch, and A few congresmen have disappropriate power, as well as people related to the fossil fuel industry.
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By next week it might be Keith Gill aka Roaring Kitty / Deep Fucking Value. Modern day repression symbol for the up coming generations fighting against the systems and greed that destroy the world.
The person that steps up and does the right thing regardless. Most people look to someone else to do the hard thing, fix the thing, or save the person. It's the bystander effect on mass. So if you walk past the sea of people that have pulled out their phones to film instead of helping someone in need, then at that point in time you are the most powerful person in the world. You're creating the change the world needs, and if butterfly wings it might inspire the next person and the next to get their heads out of their asses and be the change they want to see.
Well everyone thinks it’s the president of the united states, but hear me out: before she died… the queen. I mean in terms of military strength, sure England by itself isn’t all that powerful… but good god the influence that woman had. I mean if I just say “the queen” there’s no question which queen I’m talking about. She wasn’t just “a queen” she was “THE queen.” I love the USA just as much as the next american, but if that woman said “jump” the WORLD said “how high?”
Leaders of major religious institutions hold immense sway over their followers and can shape moral and ethical frameworks that guide behavior and societal norms on a global scale.
It's more like a power network, interconnected web of interests and industries. You can think about agriculture, finance, media, etc. Each part has its own significant infulence. So I'd say CEOs of the largest multinational companies and conglomerates in general, you can't pick just one.
My cousin Dave, plays with ninja stars, has a katana and always says on facebook that he has a 'warp spasm' when anyone disrespects his girl. (She goes to another school)
So, probably him I guess.
This can be broken down into a few layers of criteria to be meaningful.
1) what’s the extremest decision one can and will make?
2) if the decision can be executed given the person’s position, power, resources and the mechanism around it
3) how big would the impact be: measurements can be: (lets narrow it down to human civilization) how many lives are impacted? How much worldwide wealth are changed? How many years of civilization would progress/accelerate or regress. All between status 0 (when the decision is not executed) and status 1 (when the decision is executed).
Then you can assume like in a horror movie that someone, either a mid-level engineer of nuclear plant waste control or a microbiologist who has a vial of super fatal virus in the lab which he/she could at any time drop it to the sewage. These persons, with a single evil thought, could just put the entire human race in to danger.
But it is always easier to destroy than to build. So let’s add a criteria.
4) it should be much higher weighted if the impact (note: not intention) is positive by the general mankind’s value. e.g. one should get more credit in the contest if the decision can save a billion people rather than kill a billion people, if the decision can accelerate our civilization by 1000 years rather than bombing us back to the Stone Age.
Following all these criteria, there actually is one name coming to my mind with limited knowledge: Bill Gates.
Just before all the counter arguments. I don’t care about his personality or intention. But the positive impact to the world he has made, and could further make with his power, is unparalleled.
I honestly think George Soros is up there. Knowing how he makes or has made a lot of his wealth is incredibly powerful. Calling "countries" up to manipulate currency the way some would call a restaurant for reservations. Over simplified of course but still.
First thought would be some dictator, but I could also imagine that there is an extremely rich, fairly unknown person, that could easily bribe politicians to gain power.
That depends on people's different definitions of what being powerful means???
I was always taught knowledge is power,
No human is more powerful than any other human
We all learn and evolve at different rates
So my answer is a lady called,,, Mother Earth
If humans claim to be more powerful than her
Then they will be the first suffer her wrath .
Xi Jinping, in terms of the amount of people his choices effect and how long he has been making those choices I can't think of anyone who holds more power over more people.
My opinion its the person that can do the most damage
Prolly Putin or Xi provided their word is really law , cause it means they can just nuke and basically start Armageddon
US has the firepower but too much check & balance in comparison
North Korea technically too but imo they have too few nukes to do that much damage
I think there are a few people.
1. Xi Jinping (and his advisors)
He is basically a dictator and can do what he wants. If he makes a decision there is no real way to change it. This is a big difference compared to any western leader (e.g. president of the United States of America)
2. Wladimir Putin (and his advisors)
Same as Putin, just with less resources and people
3. President of the USA
Has less individual power due to rule of law and separation of powers, but he also has more allies to call upon if need be and potentially a higher support of the people than the dictators would have.
4. Leaders of th EU
Those would be the president of France, chancellor of Germany, etc.
Basically same of president of the USA when it comes to friends and allies, but even less individual powers.
5. Maybe the leader of India?
Those would be my picks for the overall power. But when it comes to certain areas there are some smaller players with tremendous power over the world.
- Taiwan and the EU with their key technologies in chip manufacturing.
- China, Korea and Japan with their influence on battery production.
- Oil producing countries
Putting everything together I would say that "the West" (this includes Taiwan, Japan, South Korea) is by far the most powerful block in the world. Not only in terms of military power, but especially when it comes to economic influence and soft power. However big the Chinese economy might currently be a lot of their outpost is not critical products.
Putin obviously. The might of the world is against him and he still has resources to throw at them.
Almost three decades in power as the Premier of a country loaded with natural resources.
I won't be surprised if he is also the richest person in the world.
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Some assh*le in a office
Maybe he's in a boat
Or a plane
Or a toilet
What if he's on the toilet which is in his office that is on his boat
That's me
I'm on a toilet?
The snakes on the plane
Yep probably on a boat somewhere.
*yacht
Well I’m an asshole in an office but I don’t think it’s me
It could be
Gosh
Big day for you!
It is! I might take the rest of the day off. Good luck everyone else!
Damn! You're a natural! Most powerful person on the Earth... What do they do with this power? "I think I'll go fishing." Respect.
I love your username name 😅
Hahahaha. Thanks! Just popped into my head and I decided to roll with it.
You’re just in an office. Far from an asshole.
You will probably never know
It’s a secret.
Me
Yep I vote this guy
superbeavers can't be beaten
Hey, I wanted to say that. 🥺
I also chose this guy's wife
SuperBeaver by far.
No it's me
No, me.
No, me.
I was gonna upvote but you’re at 69
Was going to say me but I was beaten to it
We probably never heard of that person
We probably heard of him but we don't know that he is
You. No one has a more substantial effect on your reality than you do.
True actually, whoever I think is the most powerful is the most powerful for me
We like to daydream about time travel nonsense, whereby due to some weird butterfly chaos effect, any small action can cause a drastic change in the timeline given a few years. But rarely do we consider that this exact scenario applies to right now too. Maybe a decision to wake up earlier by 10mins to go outside and touch grass will lead to a cascade of opportunities that end up with you becoming the next CEO of some middle-sized company
Or maybe it gets me shot
Not really. A psychopath with gun definitely has more control over someone's(unarmed )reality than they themselves do.
Xi Peng. CEO of Blackrock. US president doesn’t make the cut due to checks and balances (this is a good thing).
Isn't that Larry Fink?
My honest answer is: "No one, this is not a meaningful question, in the same way that 'who is the most powerful termite in the world' is not a meaningful question. Power resides in large organizations, and while those organizations may have figureheads, it is a mistake to assume those figureheads command the organization, rather than the organization compelling the figureheads." That being said, if you want the conventional wisdom answer, the most recent Forbes power ranking (2018) said Xi Jinping followed by Vladimir Putin. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes\_list\_of\_the\_World%27s\_Most\_Powerful\_People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_list_of_the_World%27s_Most_Powerful_People)
The single most powerful man is Xi Jinping, no contest. Anyone after that is debatable but I don’t think it’s Putin. I’m going to name name a financial powerhouse like the majority holders in blackrock/vanguard or the Saudi King since they have a major ripple effect on nearly every company’s policy and financially strong arm most nations. I mention them mainly because they have a larger reach than Putin who is kind of limited in his actions.
Agreed, if Xi decided to shut everything down in terms of manufacturing, the world economy would grind to a halt. We have given him so much power by having so much of our products being made there, all in the name of cheap labour.
And that’s *just* economically, not even mentioning their military, global financial influence, intelligence networks, political power and diplomatic influence. It’s unfathomably scary. I’ve put some extra thought and heres a ranking I’ve come up with. (???). Fill this spot if there is one unelected person who calls the shots at the White House/Pentagon (Jerome Powell?) 1. Xi Jinping 2. BlackRock/Vanguard group (DAVOS & friends) 3. Narendra Modi 4. Al Saud Royal Dynasty (King) 5. Vladimir Putin 6. Al Khomeini 7. Satya Nadella Edit: I put king of Saudi Arabia over Putin due to relative global influence, OPEC and military alliance with the US as well as sheer royal family assets.
I'm curious why Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft) ranks higher than Tim Cook (Apple) or Sundar Pichai (Google) or Andy Jassy (Amazon). I'm not saying you're wrong—I haven't thought about the "most powerful" question much—
This is tricky for sure, I think they all have merit to contend for that position. I don't think I'd put Microsoft as powerful as apple/google here. I personally vote Google, it's not that hard to live a (relatively) Microsoft free life, but a fair bit harder to work without the services Google provides. Can elaborate more if necessary
Idk man if a termite had a nuke button it might be easier to say
So... Putin?
Yes. Putin is the most powerful termite in the world.
Easy. Chuck Norris.
Stop underestimating Chuck Norris like that. Most powerful is his weakest state .
The person/people you'll never hear mentioned in the news. Anyone that powerful is separated from the 'poors' by layers and layers of buffers. Also you're confusing influence with power. People with that much wealth wield influence. People in power can fall/fail/be removed from power. People will influence...well they have lawyers and fixers for that sort of thing. At that level of influence any way.
This
The one that cares the least
Me, bow down to me
Superman.
There’s a starman~
Uri Geller 👹
I expected aaall the names, but not Uri Geller :D
Whoever is the richest person in the finance sector.
Jack ma disappeared after making a comment on the govt.
Jeff Bezos is not the most powerful. But people like murdoch, and A few congresmen have disappropriate power, as well as people related to the fossil fuel industry.
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Larry Fink from Blackrock.
By next week it might be Keith Gill aka Roaring Kitty / Deep Fucking Value. Modern day repression symbol for the up coming generations fighting against the systems and greed that destroy the world.
The person himself because no one affects you more than the jewel hidden in your humiliation
Someone you've never heard of. Or the Saudi Royal Family in general.
Whoever is willing launch nuclear weapons with no hesitation
My cat.
The chef at the White House.
some people will say the king, i say everyone in this thread
john cena
Some of the current presidents of world powers.
Possibly
I think our politicians here in Germany can't say shit without the media holding a gun at their head. Media CEOs are more powerful than them for sure
Bob Dylan
Your mom. Make my day better everyday
The person that steps up and does the right thing regardless. Most people look to someone else to do the hard thing, fix the thing, or save the person. It's the bystander effect on mass. So if you walk past the sea of people that have pulled out their phones to film instead of helping someone in need, then at that point in time you are the most powerful person in the world. You're creating the change the world needs, and if butterfly wings it might inspire the next person and the next to get their heads out of their asses and be the change they want to see.
Lyle from Better call saul
I agree
Well everyone thinks it’s the president of the united states, but hear me out: before she died… the queen. I mean in terms of military strength, sure England by itself isn’t all that powerful… but good god the influence that woman had. I mean if I just say “the queen” there’s no question which queen I’m talking about. She wasn’t just “a queen” she was “THE queen.” I love the USA just as much as the next american, but if that woman said “jump” the WORLD said “how high?”
It'll be the head Rothschild.
motivated person. and these are not pretty words.
Bob Ross
What a world it would be if that were true
thanos 🤣
You could not live with your own failure, and where does it bring you?? Back to me 
Someone from Biringan Philippines or Agartha Earth
Leaders of major religious institutions hold immense sway over their followers and can shape moral and ethical frameworks that guide behavior and societal norms on a global scale.
Sometimes. . . Me
The federal reserve board
Not group of people but a specific person,like the prince of Saudi??
Dave, cz everybody knows Dave
The green bastard from parts unknown
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Jesus… sky daddy or not a lot of people who can vote can choose a dangerous candidate
Car
The most powerful person is the world doesn't hurt anyone
Putin =))
My wife
Vladimir Putin God or Eddie Hall
Well I heard your momma can affect the earth's gravity
some old white guy you've never heard of
His name starts with Kim
It's more like a power network, interconnected web of interests and industries. You can think about agriculture, finance, media, etc. Each part has its own significant infulence. So I'd say CEOs of the largest multinational companies and conglomerates in general, you can't pick just one.
It has to be someone no one knows surely
Saitama
The guy who owns the highest stock with Blackrock.
Jacob Rothschild
My cousin Dave, plays with ninja stars, has a katana and always says on facebook that he has a 'warp spasm' when anyone disrespects his girl. (She goes to another school) So, probably him I guess.
The US Federal Reserve Chairman
Whoever has the highest rank at CIA.
We probably don’t know who it is because they don’t wanna be known
Whoever the rest of us choose to listen to.
My mum 🥺😭 she can be terrifying 😲😭
Surprised no one has mentioned the pope
Dr strange
Someone evil for sure.
Weak! Was expecting your mom at the top
My wife; no one has more power over my life. She has the ability to make my life a joy or misery with a single look. All Hail, She Who Must Be Obeyed.
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
chairman of world bank or BOD maybe😵🥴
The Penis.
in general its the president of USA
When I die the whole universe will disappear and nothing will matter anymore.
This can be broken down into a few layers of criteria to be meaningful. 1) what’s the extremest decision one can and will make? 2) if the decision can be executed given the person’s position, power, resources and the mechanism around it 3) how big would the impact be: measurements can be: (lets narrow it down to human civilization) how many lives are impacted? How much worldwide wealth are changed? How many years of civilization would progress/accelerate or regress. All between status 0 (when the decision is not executed) and status 1 (when the decision is executed). Then you can assume like in a horror movie that someone, either a mid-level engineer of nuclear plant waste control or a microbiologist who has a vial of super fatal virus in the lab which he/she could at any time drop it to the sewage. These persons, with a single evil thought, could just put the entire human race in to danger. But it is always easier to destroy than to build. So let’s add a criteria. 4) it should be much higher weighted if the impact (note: not intention) is positive by the general mankind’s value. e.g. one should get more credit in the contest if the decision can save a billion people rather than kill a billion people, if the decision can accelerate our civilization by 1000 years rather than bombing us back to the Stone Age. Following all these criteria, there actually is one name coming to my mind with limited knowledge: Bill Gates. Just before all the counter arguments. I don’t care about his personality or intention. But the positive impact to the world he has made, and could further make with his power, is unparalleled.
The Sapient AI I just pissed off :/. Im so sorry.
I honestly think George Soros is up there. Knowing how he makes or has made a lot of his wealth is incredibly powerful. Calling "countries" up to manipulate currency the way some would call a restaurant for reservations. Over simplified of course but still.
Elon
Lebron James.
Probably the Pope, is he just one day decides to slip on "Purge all heretics!" Then most of the world is fucked.
He-Man
The one who has the most money, intelegence and connections.
Some supervilliain like those in 80s Bond movies, who can afford secrecy.
Maaaah wiiiiffffeee
First thought would be some dictator, but I could also imagine that there is an extremely rich, fairly unknown person, that could easily bribe politicians to gain power.
That depends on people's different definitions of what being powerful means??? I was always taught knowledge is power, No human is more powerful than any other human We all learn and evolve at different rates So my answer is a lady called,,, Mother Earth If humans claim to be more powerful than her Then they will be the first suffer her wrath .
Kenny from SouthPark
Xi Jinping, in terms of the amount of people his choices effect and how long he has been making those choices I can't think of anyone who holds more power over more people.
Probably some leader of the cartel or mafia. Somebody who’s identity is underground and only known amongst his accomplices a
People who owns the banking system across the world
Ronald McDonald
No one knows
My opinion its the person that can do the most damage Prolly Putin or Xi provided their word is really law , cause it means they can just nuke and basically start Armageddon US has the firepower but too much check & balance in comparison North Korea technically too but imo they have too few nukes to do that much damage
Probably people you've never even heard of.
From what I've heard, it's some guy named SuperBeaver.
You won't know them because they used their power to conceal their identity
I think there are a few people. 1. Xi Jinping (and his advisors) He is basically a dictator and can do what he wants. If he makes a decision there is no real way to change it. This is a big difference compared to any western leader (e.g. president of the United States of America) 2. Wladimir Putin (and his advisors) Same as Putin, just with less resources and people 3. President of the USA Has less individual power due to rule of law and separation of powers, but he also has more allies to call upon if need be and potentially a higher support of the people than the dictators would have. 4. Leaders of th EU Those would be the president of France, chancellor of Germany, etc. Basically same of president of the USA when it comes to friends and allies, but even less individual powers. 5. Maybe the leader of India? Those would be my picks for the overall power. But when it comes to certain areas there are some smaller players with tremendous power over the world. - Taiwan and the EU with their key technologies in chip manufacturing. - China, Korea and Japan with their influence on battery production. - Oil producing countries Putting everything together I would say that "the West" (this includes Taiwan, Japan, South Korea) is by far the most powerful block in the world. Not only in terms of military power, but especially when it comes to economic influence and soft power. However big the Chinese economy might currently be a lot of their outpost is not critical products.
Whoever is controlling the supply of money.
The federal reserve chairman
First human to complete evolution
Superbeavers1. It’s Superbeavers1.
God - in every way he exist for the people He doesn't exists (imo), but influence more people than believe in him/it.
IMHO, any US President in the past 80 years.
People with money are the most powerful ones in the world now
#its my wife unfortunately
The people in the world who have power over their self control, impulses and decision making.
Can you define power first please.
The one who is a believer.
An unknown man who the current POTUS is the puppet for.
Me
Probably Xi JinPing
I doubt we even know this persons name.
Nigel Farage. At least in UK terms. For someone who's never had any real political power he has an unusually large amount of political sway.
God
Who runs the world banks?
In my opinion, Xi Jinping.
Putin obviously. The might of the world is against him and he still has resources to throw at them. Almost three decades in power as the Premier of a country loaded with natural resources. I won't be surprised if he is also the richest person in the world.
Keith Gill
Some dude wearing a dress from Dubai
Anyone who rules you
In the sense of economic, military, global influence, and law control, I have to say the president of the United States.
Me
Joe Mama