I'm so sorry if I had bothered someone feelings, but
It's a question and I'm asking your opinion ?
For example, in Ukraine we even had an oligarch presiden Poroshenko(from 1998 worked on goverment, top possitions, but in same time he hold a business and it's grew rapidly with political support, he hold a media companies{used it for self promotion} and used gov power for his own needs) before Zelensky shift him.
It's a pity to say but oligarchs influence in Ukraine was and is now huge. They robbed our country.
putin and his fellows are oligarchs as well, as they used whole country power to became rich and hold that power as long as it's possible. They don't care on people. Yes, it's more like some mafia, but it's still other kind of oligarchs. A lot of oligarchs have a criminal background.
In US, as I know mostly used word "Lobbying"
So are there people like Trump or Musk or anyone, oligarchs ?
Are there in US people who became rich with Political Lobbying+ ?
( like their company without auctions got a fat government contact, or their oil company was paying less rent as others/market price ... is this possible in US at all ??? as oligarchs paid not only to political persons, but also to judges, police and other government institutes for benefits for their own needs ... )
Thanks