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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both situations are bad, but I don’t think oligarchs hinder each other that much. They compete, but in their overall control of society they are fairly unanimous, because they all share the same basic material interest to pay us as little as possible for as much work as possible and to destroy any trace of meaningful working class political power that might challenge them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For the most part, their interests align, that's true. And it could be copium to say that many is better than one - since that's what we have.

At least if there was only one oligarch, we could have direct communication - as it is now, all the oligarchs can just kinda shrug their shoulders and mumble something in the universal language of plausible deniability.