When President Donald Trump took his second term oath of office, tech titans Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos had front-row seats — literally. Before Trump’s speech, the Silicon […] The post Is the United States turning into an oligarchy? Scholars react to Joe Biden’s warning appeared first on Poynter.

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Is the United States turning into an oligarchy? Scholars react to Joe Biden’s warning

In today’s increasingly unequal world, empowered by tech marvels such as Artificial Intelligence, economic power invariably gets concentrated in a few hands

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The oligarchy we see today

Although the word ‘oligarchy’ has been associated with Russian oil tycoons. But the analysis of 1,779 recent policy outcomes found that ‘economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy’

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What Is An Oligarchy? Is US Set To Become One With Tech Billionaires Backing Trump? Explained

During Monday afternoon’s coverage of President Trump’s second inauguration, the co-anchors of the coverage, PBS News Hour hosts Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz, were disturbed on ex-President Biden’s behalf by the prominent seating of corporate tech chieftains, and repeated Biden’s hypocritical warning about a rising Trumpian “oligarchy."
They turned to Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who's written a book on Big Tech: 
Geoff Bennett: You represent the …

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Confronting them won’t be easy. By Jake JohnsonStaff WriterCommon Dreams A Bloomberg analysis of billionaire wealth published Tuesday found that The post Oligarchy Digs in as Wealth of Top Billionaires Passes $10 Trillion appeared first on Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas.

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Oligarchy Digs in as Wealth of Top Billionaires Passes $10 Trillion

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How many books would you be able to cite as those that definitely “changed the world”? Right off the bat, most people would perhaps name three: The Wealth of Nations, Capital, and Mein Kampf. Yes, changing the world isn't necessarily something “positive”. What few people would cite is a work of science fiction lost in the 60's called The Lord of Light. And yet, as if in a butterfly effect, it is this book that helps us understand today's America…

Quantos livros você seria capaz de citar como aqueles que definitivamente “mudaram o mundo”? De bate pronto, a maioria das pessoas talvez citasse três: A Riqueza das Nações, O Capital e Mein Kampf.  Sim, mudar o mundo não é necessariamente algo “positivo”. O que pouca gente citaria é uma obra de ficção científica perdida nos anos 60 chamada The Lord of Light. E ainda assim, como num efeito borboleta, é este livro que ajuda a entender a América d…

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