Plutocracy
noun
A society or system where the richest people have the most power or control.
Several people criticize that we live in a plutocracy rather than a democracy.
Often appears as...
- live in a plutocracy
- rule by plutocracy
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Disapproving
noun
A society or system where the richest people have the most power or control.
Several people criticize that we live in a plutocracy rather than a democracy.
Often appears as...
- live in a plutocracy
- rule by plutocracy
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Wealth Power Link
Plutocracy emphasizes the connection between wealth and political power.
The billionaire's influence has turned our city into a plutocracy.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Plutocracy often implies unfairness and is usually seen in a negative light.
People marched against the growing plutocracy dominating our government.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Contexts
Use 'plutocracy' to describe specific systems or situations, not individual wealth.
Despite its wealth, the country is not a plutocracy, as it has fair elections.
Pro Tip 1/3Wealth Power Link
Plutocracy emphasizes the connection between wealth and political power.
The billionaire's influence has turned our city into a plutocracy.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Plutocracy often implies unfairness and is usually seen in a negative light.
People marched against the growing plutocracy dominating our government.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Contexts
Use 'plutocracy' to describe specific systems or situations, not individual wealth.
Despite its wealth, the country is not a plutocracy, as it has fair elections.
Pro Tip 1/3Wealth Power Link
Plutocracy emphasizes the connection between wealth and political power.
The billionaire's influence has turned our city into a plutocracy.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Plutocracy often implies unfairness and is usually seen in a negative light.
People marched against the growing plutocracy dominating our government.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Contexts
Use 'plutocracy' to describe specific systems or situations, not individual wealth.
Despite its wealth, the country is not a plutocracy, as it has fair elections.
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Chrystia Freeland: The...
in the U.S. and the U.K. A second thing that worries me is how easily meritocratic plutocracy can become aristocracy. One way of describing the plutocrats is as alpha geeks, and they are people who are acutely aware of how important highly sophisticated
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Chrystia Freeland: The...
in the U.S. and the U.K. A second thing that worries me is how easily meritocratic plutocracy can become aristocracy. One way of describing the plutocrats is as alpha geeks, and they are people who are acutely aware of how important highly sophisticated
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Andrew Ross Sorkin
American Journalist
There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.
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Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.
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Wendell Berry
American Poet
The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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Jose Saramago
Portuguese Writer
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
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Angus Deaton
British Economist
I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin
American Journalist
There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.
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Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.
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Wendell Berry
American Poet
The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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Jose Saramago
Portuguese Writer
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
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Angus Deaton
British Economist
I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.
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