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A little off topic, but about calling all super-wealthy people in America "oligarchs". That's just not true - if anything, they're plutocrats. An oligarch is
by tonyhb 5y ago
A little off topic, but about calling all super-wealthy people in America "oligarchs". That's just not true - if anything, they're plutocrats.
An oligarch is someone who was given their business by the government by force, often with murder and jail involved to the oppressed. Like Abramovich receiving state owned oil and steel companies. Musk built paypal, helped revive tesla, and built SpaceX using his own money as collateral. He didn't get handed NASA.
- markdown 5y ago> An oligarch is someone who... That's how the word is/was used by the Russians, but isn't really how it's used by the western media. Any Russian billionaire is called an oligarch; it's used as a substitute for plutocrat. Musk, Bezos, the Koch brothers, Soros, and a few other billionaires are plutocrats, ergo, they are oligarchs.
- kidme5 5y ago>> He didn't get handed NASA Funny, about that..read the career bio of Mike Griffin.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin