Capitalism

Headline from today: "Supreme Court Justice warns that the president is now a king".

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Don't want this to come across as defeatist, because the message is nice and Ursula K. Le Guin is a real one, but there's still 43 monarchies in existence in 2024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_monarchies

The elites of the former are just an evolved form of the latter.

See: hubbub over "death taxes".