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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're on the wrong Lemmy instance for this. Lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago
[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They aren't even capitalists anymore.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Of course they are, oligarchs are a necessary product of the system operating over time because capitalism is fundamentally designed to concentrate wealth in the hands of a few.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah but eventually it becomes impossible for other people to get their own capital other than their labor. At that point is it really capitalism anymore are evolution into something else?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

That's literally how capitalism has always worked. People who own capital exploit those who do not and are forced to sell themselves as wage slaves. That's how surplus capital is created.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

how is there even an oligarchy then?