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The ownership economy · SELECTED MOMENT · 0:43

Corporate chains can obscure the person receiving value or exercising power.

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Thom TownsendExecutive Director · Open OwnershipLinkedIn ↗

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Corporate chains can obscure the person receiving value or exercising power.

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Attributed contributors: Thom Townsend. “Corporate chains can obscure the person receiving value or exercising power..” Ownership as a Primitive for Development: Transparency vs. Privacy and the Future of Trusted Value Chains. ECOSYSTEM Summit, Barcelona, 17 September 2026. Session time 3:34–4:17. https://cs-ecosystem.commonshare.workers.dev/evidence/E-5ae73e2b0658

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Analyst synthesis. The recording establishes that a claim was made. It does not independently establish the claimed effect.

mechanism argument

Corporate chains can obscure the person receiving value or exercising power.

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Thom TownsendExecutive Director · Open OwnershipLinkedIn ↗

Proposed mechanism: Disclosure links formal entities to ultimate controllers.

Limit: Complex structures can have legitimate uses; opacity alone does not prove wrongdoing.

provenanceaccountabilityvalue capture

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