Plutocrats, Both Legitimate and Illicit

Interpretation of Vladimir Harkonnen from Dune by Simon Dubuc Chouinard.

I’m currently wandering through Desolation Wildnerness with my father, so Exolymph is on hold. Here’s an article suggestion for the end of your week — “The Twin Insurgency” by Nils Gilman:

“Note that, conceptually, plutocratic insurgencies differ from kleptocracies; the latter use the institutions of state to loot the population, whereas the former wish to neutralize those institutions in order to facilitate private-sector looting. […] As these public services deteriorate in quality, the result is a self-reinforcing cycle whereby plutocratic insurgents increasingly see no reason to contribute anything to their host societies and, indeed, actively contest the idea that citizenship comes with economic responsibilities.”