"Oligarchy" - Pros and Cons

Would love to learn why it’s better for women.

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What are some pros of having an oligarchy?

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It’s really not conceptually much different that our expertocracy system. Power becomes concentrated among a small number of people in both.

The advantage of the oligarch is he knows he’s in power by luck or thuggery and could at least keep some humility.

The “expert” is arrogant and entitled, and is unable to adapt to unforeseen circumstances. Think of Anthony Fauci. Above average IQ. Got great grades in Med school but flattened out as a researcher. Now runs a bureaucracy with an iron fist and destroys anyone who disagrees because he thinks he’s infallible.

Every Western democracy is an oligarchy.

We have the same system of government that Russia does.


This is a global phenomenon, and it goes back to the end of the Middle Ages. Due to technology improvements, the merchant class grew incredibly rich. And this changed the power dynamic, displacing the church and the aristocracy.

I think oligarchy is probably the worst system of government we could have. Oligarchs have the wrong values.

Sounds like the US

The United States is basically an oligarchy at this point.

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Would love to learn why it’s better for women.

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Security. Women value security above all else. It's why they gold dig, and why weak men get cheated on. It's why they shouldn't vote, because they are very easily swayed by tyrants who will take away their liberties in exchange for a feeling of security. They will swap liberty for security every single time. They feel very secure in a patriarchal society, if you destroy the patriarchy, they must look to government for that security. This is also why they push to feminize the entire society in general, why they say masculinity is toxic. Easier to control.

A king could admit he was wrong, and say he's going to work to fix it. And he could change his legacy and avoid being beheaded or becoming "The Terrible"

A President can never do that, because the party has to get reelected. He must dig in his heels and always act like he's right even if it means war.

There are a lot of beloved kings, with "The Great" after their name.

I think we have been an oligarchy since at least the 1860s.

For the first thirty years we were a strange kind of electoral aristocracy.

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Every Western democracy is an oligarchy.

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I'll go further than that.

The eventual end result of every single form of government devised by mankind is oligarchy.

Communism.
Capitalism.
Socialism.
Democracy.
Meritocracy.
Monarchy.
Aristocracy.
Theocracy.

It doesn't matter.

They all end up with a small percentage of elites calling all the shots and holding the vast majority of the wealth, while the people gradually lose all of their liberty.

Every. Single. One.

We are headed toward a technocracy, which is very similar.