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It's weird how in the Western world we rarely call them oligarchs. That seems to be reserved for the wealth-hoarders in former-Soviet countries.
I’ll use it if you do.
Pinky swear?
I've been trying my best for a while now, friend. I'm also trying to normalize treating having too much wealth as embarrassing. Like, it should fully be seen as a character flaw to have more money than anyone could ever use. I'm far from advocating for enforced equality, but there should be some limit to wealth upon which exceeding it is viewed as gross by the rest of us plebs. Those parasites certainly shouldn't be fawned over like so many people do now.
The problem is they don’t give a flying fuck what we think of them because they don’t have to and never will.
They can buy an army of bots on xitter to say nice things to them.
Also you will buy their products and watch their movies and work for them so you don’t starve to death.
or create a tv show and watch as millions fawn over their every move