Now a robot is about to rob a mom somewhere of a decent job. Soon a kitchen robot will make another mom afraid of the kitchen since she will not spend any time there but the question is are robbers going to get their jobs taken by robots? Robot robbers fancy anyone? Or Rob-o-robot?
In Eastern Europe and Russia the oligarchs had nothing more than others nearly 30 years ago, they were as rich or poor as the other citizens plus or minus a VCR, a car or some cool trinket. But they indeed took advantage of lawlessness and confusion and the current situation is far from fair, looked at in a certain light is worse than before the curtain. And of course looked from another angle is better. And lots of psychopaths, lots of psychopaths raised to the top. They recognized the game right from the start and got good at it while the rest of us naively hoped in miracles.
While I agree, the same can be said of the USA. Just different tactics and a different regime at home. Both of them plutocratic as well. Now there's a new similar player: China