# How Wealth Concentration Threatens US Democracy

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119687707438075973
- Source account: [@StopptdieNwo](https://x.com/StopptdieNwo)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:46
- Published: 2026-11-09
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy) But already the 10 richest Americans have two point three trillion of wealth.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=5) That's a lot for 10 people, 10 individuals.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=9) That's not 10 companies, that's not 10 clans, that's 10 people.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=15) But they also happen to own a lot more. They own the White House.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=22) They installed the vice president. They determine US government policy.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=28) They will own the cryptocurrencies, which will become our main currencies.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=34) They own all of the big platforms on which we communicate.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=40) They own YouTube, of course, which is, uh, the channel where I'm able to say sometimes things that are not in the US government's liking, but I don't know for how long.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=54) They own my email address. They own the full knowledge of every keystroke I've made in the last ten years, no doubt.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=65) They own my privacy.

[1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=68) They own the newspapers, like The Washington Post, owned by Jeffrey Bezos.

[1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=75) They will own TikTok shortly, TikTok USA, because Larry Ellison is buying it on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ellison will give it to his son, uh, as a nice gift.

[1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=91) He's already given to his son Paramount Studios, Paramount Media, and CBS News.

[1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=98) It's quite a world, and that's just ten or so Americans.

[1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=104) So we're in a very strange concentration of power, I think the likes of which we've never seen before.

[1:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=113) It has already destroyed democracy. We are democratic in form only, but we don't have a sensible non-democratic system.

[2:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=125) We have a privatized system, which is quite different.

[2:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=128) Uh, in China, which is not a democracy, uh, it is a technocracy.

[2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=134) In the United States, it's the other way around, which is the government is subordinate to the, uh, particular corporate class now, uh, of, uh, the big tech sector.

[2:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=149) So we're in a governance adventure as well.

[2:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=154) Will there be general wellbeing? Depends on how we use our surplus.

[2:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/n4Qb5CelJear/en/how-wealth-concentration-threatens-us-democracy?t=160) If all the surplus goes to the top, then we will have mass impoverishment.