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Call them Robber Barons, not billionaires [View all]
To Americans "billionaire" simply means rich guy.
To Americans "oligarch" is something to do with Russia. The offshoot "broligarch" is merely a clever amalgamation.
But 'Robber Baron" is a term Americans understand as a bad, even evil, rich person. Really Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg are no different from Rockefeller, Carnegie, the RR tycoons and their ilk of the late 19th century.
Start referring to them as what they are both robbers and rich.
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