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Oh absolutely, it's just that the modern day aristocrats of capitalism are so short sighted they can't see past their own nose.
They don't know that their own wealth is meaningless since rule of law is not theirs, and no one will care if they get epstiened like many Russian oligarchs.
"First they came" and all that
There is a difference between aristocracy and oligarchy. Aristocracy is under the thumb of the monarch, oligarchy isn't.
On the Wikipedia page, it states that oligarchy is "Aristocracy's corrupt counterpart".
At the end of the day there is no way an aristocracy doesn't become corrupt, so the result is just a label