Oligarchy Vs Capitalism

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Both capitalists and corporate oligarchy bring an enormous profit to the government, providing good economy/sort of economic stability and decreasing the unemployment rate. But the true democracy cannot exist in democratic countries if the corporate oligarchy and capitalists influence the government. I believe if capitalism would be the one economic system without corporate oligarchy, the life would be better. If talking about the true democracy, I think people have minimum influence if the group of elites has a control over the politics. I believe oligarchy is something negative, as in most cases, it is corrupted. Chris Hedges says that the problem is in greediness over human life. They do not care about people, but they care about their

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