Tech oligarchy? How big is the tech billionaires' influence over US politics? | DW News

[@Rachena_Febriery]

"...many critics say it will be the beginning of an era of oligarchy..." Indonesians: "The first time?"

[@ihl0700677525]

Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, etc vast majority of American founding fathers were "oligarch" (rich people with political power). So, United States of America is, and always been, an oligarchy since the very beginning. You know, kinda like Venice, Genoa, Hanseatic League, etc. Anyway, oligarchy seems to work somewhat better than most other types of government (i.e. Oligarchic society almost always wealthier than Aristocracy, Theocracy, Bureaucratic society, Technocracy like USSR, etc).

[@OzzieBenzC300]

And with this, the United States becoming an oligarchy! Welcome to Russia!

[@Komodo1312]

Always has been

[@tellitlikeitis5856]

Be quiet, Moe. Your causing nothing but problems, look at your middle east countries, people radicals riding in the back of trucks shouting Akbar carrying ak 47's.....

[@thomasbarchen]

From Russia with love!

[@tellitlikeitis5856]

@thomasbarchen USA has no love for russia

[@lollerskates1992]

Always was

[@artharrison9586]

Sometimes Canada doesn’t feel far enough away from the US.

[@sjt_w_stot]

3 corporations control Canada's food supply, aka 3 CEO's, aka 3 people.... Pot, kettle. Canada is just one back-to-back food price fixing scandal over and over and over again.

[@16-BitGuy]

He is even an imigrant who became american wtf?

[@Salvino110]

Yes, but he's white, not bLACK OR BROWN. MAGA hates shades of skin colour.

[@ashleyconnor8891]

Hahaha….an immigrant telling Mericans what to do…..i LOVE it!

[@brucec8987]

Omg. Keep these tech Oligarchs out of politics.

[@Jackolivierbo]

Keep useless politicians out of politics. Look at the state of Europe … declining to oblivion

[@MrPipesarecalling]

Wow, so DW doesn’t even pretend to be unbiased when covering the news. Good to know

[@damham5689]

So telling the truth is bias now 🤔

[@TheBf666]

cry more

[@mrtee3477]

@@damham5689 DW reporting the truth without bias is shocking! German state-run media is no different from RT.

[@TEKTAR-7]

Did you just come on here to display your own biases?

[@williamlai29]

3:44 why does this guy have "woke" written all over his face...?

[@warbler1984]

That's a "he"?

[@williamlai29]

@@warbler1984 not sure, I'm a bit outdated.

[@windatar6351]

"USA might become an oilgarchy." Uhh... It wasn't before? It's been an oligarchy since 1970 when the SCOTUS said. "Money is speech." Legalizing bribery

[@DuyenNguyen-ui6mo]

He is the shadow president.

[@hannahem8604]

Winter is coming.

[@richierich3194]

We're all doomed. 🌍

[@Jackolivierbo]

Lol ! Not at all , thanks to them you dont live in Russia or Iran. These men invent the future. Like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Looks at the tools you use every day - computer and smartphone - and be thankful. Else, drop them and live Amish style. Cheers 🍻

[@raclark2730]

Settle down C3PO.

[@alfredorayo1]

what?????? people still think that USA is not an oligarchy since decades ago???

[@raia07]

"reducing government bureaucracy" AKA "regulations" so billionaires can be kept responsible even less ..

[@reardelt]

Before it was the oil and banking oligarchy. Now it's the tech oligarchy. There will always be some "oligarchy" controlling democracy.

[@TEKTAR-7]

Widening the wealth gap isn’t going to be good for the middle class.

[@randstahl4869]

Oh Say Can You See By Dawn Of American Oligarchy? What So Proud We (of US) Hail At The Twilight Of Democracy and bow down to Elon Musk. Oh hail X! And Q where art thou?!

[@CaneBTC]

I think Olaf Scholz may be called up to principal Musks office.

[@katkrauze4250]

Elon is a joke, high on ketamin, tweeting all day, knowing nothing about geopolitics

[@michaelpilos]

“Absolute Power - Corrupts Absolutely”

[@obinnayoung]

And issues regarding the average American are on mute.

[@texasgermancowgirl]

I’m leaving the United States. There’s just no way I’m going to be able to have my German bf emigrate here. I was quoted $20k+. Anyways we both said f it, let’s get married in Denmark next year and move to Bavaria. I’m happy. He’s happy. And finally, we can start our lives

[@texasgermancowgirl]

He wasn’t very thrilled to move to the US anyway. I’m a global IT remote worker so it’s been easier for me

[@randomguy7175]

When Sorus , bill gates and mark Zuckerberg helped Hillary , Biden.. it was not a issue.. but suddenly now it's a issue seriously!?

[@yongbinsong9676]

We are witnessing Trump's presidency will surely accelerate the already declining influences, and it teaches us the very fact that each and every empire has collapsed in human history.

[@rick-yo]

What we will witness is the rise of the Sith Lord (Trump) and Anakin (Musk)

[@ThePansexualWithErnest]

Haha He doesn't have influence over Me at The Pansexual, but I don't know what kinda videos to make

[@jdpersonalgmail9343]

DW your view on this sucks. Elon is a great human being. Stop your extreme leftist content…..

[@texasgermancowgirl]

hey, I’m an American, they are being literally unbiased as hell. it’s just the truth dude

[@TEKTAR-7]

Delusion = disappointment. Wake up, life is about to get real and your idol isn’t going to save you.

[@user-user-rxtxpxdx]

Elon Musk, the future US president!

[@XKS99]

Thank God for Elon. I shudder to think where we would be right now if it weren't for him getting involved.

[@lightning9494]

Yeah trump couldve actually won without buying votes….

[@TaylorSwifty69]

This is clearly very biased

[@osawidatay]

Conflict of interest

[@fabiss23]

hahahaha, maga voted for Musk, not Trump...so funny

[@ashishc.s4353]

All it took was that his one kid become gay Bought twitter now president 😂😂😂

[@Penny4URThougths]

Trump = God 🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@Gaspardini]

I mean id rather have someone with actual experience managing large structures of people, governing than politicians with 0 real life CV. Spain had a minister whose only exp previously was being a cashier in a supermarket for 6 months.

[@jeetrajkumar1018]

Lol.. He is making more contributions towards climate change than rest

[@shanemack06]

who would have guessed the guy with 3 rings in his face had negative stuff to say about musk 😅 laughable mostly

[@henrylu1278]

People just can't accept that someone is both successful and influential

[@texasgermancowgirl]

no we can accept it, but citizens united broke that social contract.

[@highernation1]

Typical Canadian point of view

[@tindustries]

I miss Biden/Kamala already but i really miss obama now he was not perfect but a trillion times more stable

[@ramd4392]

WHAT DW WAS DOING WHEN BIDEN & DEMS WERE CONTROLLING THE SAME????? SLEEPING???😂😂😅😂

[@worldpeace1822]

Here come the flies 😅

[@TaylorSwifty69]

WOOOHOOOO LETS GO USA USA USA

[@SenatorAgrapa]

Where is ramaswamy He is a smart guy

[@simguns8388]

I can live with Elon's influence. He is successful for a reason. The US feds and German's don't like him, but he is building the best EVs and rockets in the world. 😊😊😊

[@WillN2Go1]

Don't assume success in one domain applies to other fields. Musk clearly knows nothing about politics and history. He's aping fascist ideologies. Twitter X is a disaster. He insisted on overpaying for it, he pissed off the major advertisers, people are fleeing the site. How much did it cost to set up Bluesky? Probably significantly less than the $44 billion Musk insisted on paying for Twitter, and also significantly less than the $8 B Twitter/X is now said to be worth. I'm a Tesla investor. I know what Musk can do and what he can't. He doesn't.

[@HybridHumaan]

The reason: a mine run by slaves in south africa.

[@Dstinct]

He is a successful salesman just like trump. He has not created anything of value. His first company sold a database product that was completely useless. His code was never implemented into Paypal, but they didn't do due diligence before paying him for it. He has nothing to do with the designs of his companies, Starlink, Space X, Tesla, Boring.... all these companies were already developed, and he just bought them. Wait. I'm wrong. He did design something recently. The Cybertruck is his first design, and that is overall been reviewed as a dud of a product with a litany of problems.

[@katkrauze4250]

He's got a rich daddy just like trump. Why do people worship rich assholes is beyond me

[@simguns8388]

@Dstinct Obviously, you have never contributed to a large corporation. He approves all high-level decisions. If he didn't know what the customer wanted, he wouldn't be so successful. Don't be so jealous. 😗

[@Zockopa]

Well,the US is a oligarchy for quite some time now. Nothing new realy. But Musk is a aggressivly smart one,while many others rather like to pull strings from behind the scene.

[@tasgotsis2468]

Bad news

[@javiercarrera]

Deutsche Woke

[@Peter-p7n5b]

I SAY PLANET EARTH WORLD FORBIDDEN PLANET MOVIE ILLEGITIMATE GOVT VERMONT ILLEGLE

[@technotambo2]

DW is Anti Trump? give Trump a chance please, Musk is just like all of us, we support Donald Trump!

[@TEKTAR-7]

Musk is just like all of us?😂 We didn’t make 80 billion after November 5. How are you seeing yourself benefiting like the tech sector elite?

[@technotambo2]

@@TEKTAR-7 Yes ofcourse i will benefit from the good decisions that will follow, good decisions are good decisions, the stock and crypto markets even went bullish when Trump won the 2024 elections, are you too blind to see that? and bad decisions like War with Russia are bad decisions period!

[@Spindlysneaker]

Predictable and worrying. It will influence European politics also in the end. Not good at all for us in the end.

[@rabbiy69games]

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[@Peter-p7n5b]

GROWING UP STOCKDALE VIETNAM WAR BOOK KENT SCHOOL WHERE CONN STATE HOCKEY ARENA DEDICATION PARTY MUSCLE CARS FUNNY CARS TITO GERMAN BUST

[@rainacherienne1010]

Love that Elon has so much influence. This new government is perfect.

[@lightning9494]

Yeah why not let an oligarch take over, what could go wrong?

[@andrewjones-productions]

"Love that Elon has so much influence. This new government is perfect." I will share with you a Welsh proverb. 'Nid yn y bore mae canmol diwrnod braf.' (Not in the morning do you praise a nice day.). If I were you, I'd reserve judgement until 4 years later. As anyone should of any government.

[@eloimauri6235]

The dude says "you know" way too much, seems too informal...

[@Poxenium]

I trust these people more than politicians.

[@TEKTAR-7]

I don’t

[@pierrewolff5680]

No real news here, no surprises. Just time robbing talk.

[@bramalaplaya]

I really like the DW news channel for international news but this video is very disapointing. This Paris Marx guy is making it extremely left biased. The guy is drooling when he can shit talk Trump, Musk or any other relevent person in this video.. It's not objective at all so plesae never have him on this program again...