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If They Were Russians, We’d Call Them Oligarchs
In the West, they’re called billionaires and we just love them
According to Wikipedia, an oligarch is “a business magnate who controls sufficient resources to influence national politics.”
Instead of quoting the rest of this short but enlightening article, I’ll just share a screenshot.
See if you can spot anything suspicious.
It would seem that oligarchy is an Eastern European concept that exists only in two post-USSR states: Russia and Ukraine. We dodged a bullet there!
We sure as hellfire have no monopolistic business tycoons with political influence who try to push their various services aggressively onto the consumer here in the West.
No, my good Sir, we don’t.
Sure, one company controls 87% of all online searches and 37% of the online advertising market but their motto is “Don’t be evil.” We can trust them.
Alright, they regularly and secretly tweak their algorithm to favour larger companies and to discard search results they don’t like, but that’s no big deal. Just like…
