What Do the Oligarchs Have in Mind for Us?
24th June 2019
Joel Kotkin has his hair on fire.
Like most exercises in mind-reading, this article is based more on what people are afraid might happen rather than on what is likely to happen. To say that ‘the oligarchs’ have something ‘in mind for us’ other than our buying their goods and services and them having pots of money to spend is the sort of conspiracy-theory nonsense that wouldn’t get a lot of credibility in any other context. You might as well blame it all on the Jews (which some, of course, are perfectly willing to do.) Individual tech billionaires have their political preferences, but if you put Tom Steyer and Peter Thiel in the same room you’ll get a cage match, not a conspiracy, and much the same goes for the Kochs and the Zuckerbergs.