{"id":4930,"date":"2015-01-27T21:45:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T02:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2015-01-27T21:45:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T02:45:51","slug":"meet-the-extreme-super-rich-a-list-of-the-80-people-who-own-half-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4930","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Extreme Super Rich \u2013 A List of the 80 People Who Own Half the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/01\/27\/meet-the-extreme-super-rich-a-list-of-the-80-people-who-own-half-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meet the Extreme Super Rich \u2013 A List of the 80 People Who Own Half the World<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Before I get into the meat of this post, I want to make it clear that the\u00a0definition of oligarch, a term I use a lot, does not center solely around money.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, in the post\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Inside the Mind of an Oligarch \u2013 Sheldon Adelson Proclaims \u201cI Don\u2019t Like Journalism\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2014\/11\/10\/inside-the-mind-of-an-oligarch-sheldon-adelson-proclaims-i-dont-like-journalism\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Inside the Mind of an Oligarch \u2013 Sheldon Adelson Proclaims \u201cI Don\u2019t Like Journalism,\u201d<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0I attempted to frame the word oligarch as I use\u00a0it. I wrote the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In a nutshell, while many oligarchs are extremely wealthy (or have access to extreme wealth), not all people with extreme wealth are oligarchs. The term oligarch is reserved for those with extreme wealth who also want to control the political process, policy levers and most other aspects of the lives of the citizenry in a top-down tyrannical and undemocratic manner. They think they know best about pretty much everything, and believe unelected technocrats who\u00a0share their worldview should be empowered so that they can unilaterally make\u00a0all of society\u2019s important decisions. The unwashed masses (plebs) in their minds are unnecessary distractions who must\u00a0to be told what to do. Useless eaters who need to be brainwashed into worshipping the oligarch mindset, or turned into apathetic automatons incapable or unwilling to engage in critical thought. Either outcome is equally acceptable and equally encouraged.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With that out of the way,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/meet-the-80-people-who-are-as-rich-as-half-the-world\/\"><em>Five-Thirty-Eight<\/em>\u00a0provided<\/a>\u00a0the following:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Extreme Super Rich \u2013 A List of the 80 People Who Own Half the World Before I get into the meat of this post, I want to make it clear that the\u00a0definition of oligarch, a term I use a lot, does not center solely around money. Late last year, in the post\u00a0Inside the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2384,2966,599,1092,868],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-elite","tag-extreme-wealth","tag-oligarchs","tag-oligarchy","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}