• southerntofu@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    I think the US translation you’re looking for is robber baron not “entrepeneur”… but then the stereotypical meme about all US people being 100% pro-capitalism wouldn’t work :s

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      3 years ago

      The problem is, although the term exists in English, it’s never used in popular discourse, unlike oligarch.

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        3 years ago

        It was used abundantly in leftist circles until the neoliberal turn. Now talk of the “bourgeoisie” or “robber barons” has been replaced by a confusionist denouncing of neoliberalism, multinationals and new world order… but despite the political shortcomings of these new expressions, anti-rich sentiment is still alive and well in the global North.