The word “oligarch” has done so much legwork for liberalism in these past few years. So many people are willing to accept that this is the fault of a few especially naughty rich bois and not the inevitable consequence of a system that depends on material inequities to exist. Your cousin’s uncle who owns a car dealership and rental properties is not an oligarch and neither are any home-owning, middle-class people who vote for property protection and lower taxes because they think it’ll make their retirement more comfortable. There is no salvaging this system by purging “bad actors,” and liberals will sacrifice these people if it means maintaining the hierarchy.