Monopoly. Everyone links the word to the board game, some not even knowing what it means. Then there are hexopolies; more specifically, the hexopoly of six corporations that essentially rules media all across the United States and innumerable companies that all Americans know. A majority of the population uses the services those companies provide. A hexopoly like this, as disturbing as it is, is even more alarming. Six large companies with a vast power over resources that all Americans use? How can that be good? If they were to ban together or to take over one another, which are both a large possibility,* what type of power would that give them? They, the six companies with more power than most people know, would have the type of money sum that people can't even fathom. This type of power certainly isn't safe, but there isn't much anyone could do. Americans will have to deal with the fact that six companies, larger than anything they know, may turn into one as time passes, and the power that comes with owning things people value most (like their phones, or television) given to one single corporation that strives toward two things; money, and keeping the hold over Americans that keeps their income growing.

*In 1950, there were 50 corporations that controlled the media. That has changed to six. Which way does this seem to be heading?