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Finding Your Inner Oligarch: A Guide to Absolute Power and Where to Buy It

JA Westenberg
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7 min readJan 16, 2025

You’re looking at oligarchy all wrong.

You’re watching Elon Musk’s Twitter circus and thinking that’s what real Power looks like. You see him posting memes at 3 AM, buying social networks on impulses, and launching cars into space. You’re studying his playbook: the dramatic public gestures, the attention-grabbing pronouncements, the cult of personality.

This is precisely why you’ll never become a real oligarch.

Want to understand why Musk’s brand of oligarchy is fundamentally unstable? Look at who’s processing his Tesla customers’ payments. Look at who’s hosting Starlink’s ground station data. Look at who’s handling his company’s cloud infrastructure. The real Power isn’t in the electric cars, rockets, or appearances with Trump — it’s in the invisible systems that make them work.

Next-gen oligarchy isn’t being on magazine covers or crafting viral tweets. It’s embedding yourself so deeply into critical systems that removing you would cause them to collapse. It’s making your private interests indistinguishable from public infrastructure.

I. The Evolution of Power

Historically, Power was pretty straightforward. Ancient oligarchs maintained control…

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