Quote (SkySwallower @ 7 Nov 2024 17:05)
Billionaires own the media most people use, specificially elon musk, rupert murdoch and to a lesser degree mark zuckerberg and jeff bezos. Do you really think they have your best interest at heart? Because I gotta tell you, caring for the average man is not how you become a billionaire. They are also very clearly not "left" because again, that's not how you become a billionaire.
Universities are left leaning, but not because they are bought. Getting better education and meeting different people just sways people to more left leaning policies, that happens worldwide - we have government funded universities and oftentimes conservative politicians at power and people still become more left leaning on average after studying.
That is where you are not completely right. Just because you are a billionaire doesn't mean you have the power.
It is the collective groups behind them that control these billionaires.
You can have teams of security to protect you, but these people that have control, have the military, intelligence, and operatives who are not just interested in money (They do to a certain point) but is ideologically compromised and indoctrinated.
The billionaires wealth are reflected in the stocks that they hold, not in cold hard cash or commodities like gold and silver for example.
Whoever that is controlling the entire chessboard are far more powerful than all these so called billionaires. Money is nothing when it comes to a tipping point. One can always confiscate and take away whatever you have if it is needed for example in the security and interest of the Nation or Civilization.
Your argument although is well founded in a sense is far from the truth.