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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
This is incorrect. The Oligarchs are wealthy because of their proximity to power, plutocrats have proximity to power because of their wealth. That may sound like a difference without distinction, but it creates very different incentives and results.
In the US (to a lesser degree Canada), anyone who gets wealthy can have an outsized voice for change in governance. In Russia, the governance does not change because the wealthy lose everything once their power is lost. The wealthy need the leader in an oligarchy, the leader needs the wealthy in a plutocracy
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Can we at least agree that they're all corrupt as F@#$?