There's one in the city where I live. Her fortune is a company (you have all heard its name) so in a certain sense her wealth is putting a number on a large number of voters' jobs.

Recently the company decided it needed a plot of land, located in the middle between there of its sites. It got that plot.

Call it an oligarch or call it well-paid voters' jobs. I think the later is truer.

That's because there are no safeguards and failsafes to keep authority in check.

When Winnie the Pooh orders you to jump, your only permitted responses are Yes or How high? unless you want to be deleted (no, not killed, deleted) from the face of the planet and any and all records known to China.

Same goes for Russia and other authoritarian regimes.

You think the Chinese government gives a damn about a sad and dying planet?

They should punish billionaires that cross the people, not the government.