Here's a quote from George Carlin that's perhaps applicable here -

“Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.”

Agreed, but sounds like the issue is the politicians and the government, not rich people.

> Agreed, but sounds like the issue is the politicians and the government, not rich people.

Are we going to pretend that a nation-state's intelligence agency(ies) aren't some of FB's biggest clients? Are you not aware how the 5-Eyes program works at all?

FB gladly hand over the details of those Q-anon imbeciles on their platform with no resistance, they then proceeded to censor and de-platform anyone who didn't follow the narrative and even went after people who had nothing to do with politics in the last wave of bans.

And you don't think these 'rich people' aren't beholden to the State and its surveillance economy, of which they are just one part of the apparatus?

Corruption begets corruption: and many of these rich people (specifically CEOs of FAANG) are not without blood on their hands, playing 'whose worse' is like saying the one to actually kill Ceaser was the last to deliver the final blow on the Senate floor as he laid in a pool of his own blood. (Ceaser was a tyrant and deserved to die, just so its clear.)

I would argue the very Nation-State model is to blame, its a total cesspool; and this type of cronyism is prevalent in this model which rewarded a few (like, but limited, to Zuck) who acquiesced when they State showed up with bags of money for them to play along for these exact events.

Well all these 'neo-feudalists' don't seem to be waging lobbying campaigns to get the money out of politics, right? That would be paying to reduce their own power.

They are one and the same.