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Hey US oligarchs, this is your future. You're not special and you are replaceable in the eyes of the government.
Sadly, they wouldn’t listen. Everyone thinks of themselves being special. Especially sociopathic rich assholes.
Right!? Who looks at this and thinks to themselves that they want to live in this kind of system?
Bystander effect/Nash equilibrium. Unless they're ALL doing it, none of them want to be the ONLY sucker who's forgoing short-term profit opportunities for the benefit of all. This is what government is supposed to enforce on them: forcing them ALL to support democracy.
I'm not talking about the Russian oligarchs.
I'm talking about the American oligarchs. If you are Elon musk or Peter thiel, how do you look at the Russian system and think that your circumstances will be improved by a lower tax rate, but which comes with the requirement that you are subject to the whims of a capricious psychopath?
Every incremental step along the way is immediately profitable. The thought process would be "Somebody will stop it from getting that far, and when THAT happens I'll support the anti-authoritarian movement, but UNTIL then, all the other oligarchs are profiting from these incremental steps towards authoritarianism, and when the anti-authoritarianism kicks in there'll be no further short-term profit opportunities to exploit so I don't wanna be the only one who didn't avail of them when they were available".
They think they’ll be the ones ordering the executions.
"Why pay living wages if competitors use slave labor?
Why fund elections if rivals buy politicians?
Why defend norms if fascists deregulate?"
Defection becomes rational until the system implodes.
“Mysteriously” is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting in this title.
That's still less lifting than can be found on Putin's face.
Waiting for that Russian gold mine guy who was just arrested to accidently fall out of a window
He'll resist arrest while being in prison and will hang himself with two bullets to the back of the head.
I expected a much longer list. After a brief intro to the topic, they cover 6 people.
OP stripped the title. It originally said "The minister, the general and the oil baron: All the mysterious deaths of Russian officials and businessmen", which makes more sense in light of the article's limited content.
Wikipedia has the much longer list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_Russia-related_deaths_since_2022
Right. The stripped title made me think I was to be treated to such a list.
And boy is that a list. Wow.
The article is about the list of Putin's inner circle since the beginning of the war in Ukraine (2 in just the last week).
Starovoit is among a number of state officials and prominent businessmen who have died in mysterious circumstances since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Putin’s foes and critics have often met with violent deaths.
I think most people know the number of individuals who have fallen out of windows would be a much bigger list. 6 very prominent individuals with direct links to Putin have been killed, just over the past week 2 more have been killed and several have been arrested. It seems like Putin is taking over any resources he needs and cleaning house in an attempt to defeat Ukraine.
Also, that was the suggested auto title, and how it appears on the homepage of the news website.
No argument. These statements all seem to be true. My point was that the shorter title does not well represent the article's content.
The war in Ukraine has devastated Russia's economy. The oligarchs don't think the war will be successful and Putin is aware of that. He's frightened and removing perceived threats.
I will once again recommend the limited podcast series, Sad Oligarch. It's about the mysterious deaths in Russia.
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