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Now the hard part begins for Morsi, who confronts an intense power struggle between the beneficiaries of Mubarak’s status quo – generals, business tycoons, National Democratic Party bosses, senior judges, media personnel, and senior state employees – and pro-change forces, whose largest organized entity is the Brotherhood.
Political business tycoons, on the other hand, have different ambitions.
But tycoons are not natural democrats.
Dealing with despots and shady tycoons is no longer venal, but noble.
Many of its tycoons (one of whom, Robert Kuok, controls the South Morning China Post ) are jettisoning their autonomy for the sake of business - even when such action is not requested.
An oppressed tribe of Ostjuden, destitute immigrants from the shattered communities of Eastern Europe, was transformed in just two generations from God-fearing shoemakers, tailors, and wandering peddlers into a community of writers, philosophers, scientists, and tycoons.
And what a collection the delegates make: the President of Mauritius, the former Governor-General of New Zealand, former Prime Ministers of Fiji and Guyana, Malaysian politicians, Gulf-based entrepreneurs, tycoons from Hong Kong, and corporate titans from the United States, all united by the simple fact of shared heritage – the undeniable reality that even exiles cannot escape the mirror.
If we were to create a real market, it would become unpleasantly commercial – a bit like those charity auctions where celebrities or tycoons donate the pleasure of their company for lunch with the highest bidder, except that the VIP pockets the money.
If political institutions are weak, wealthy tycoons can use their money to “capture” government officials and tilt economic regulations in their own favor.
And even if such a policy were implemented, tycoons would continue to work to influence the media through, say, mispriced advertising contracts.
The remaining 225 seats will be filled in winner-take-all single-member constituencies – a change that gives regional tycoons a great opportunity to buy seats.
But Yanukovych failed to anticipate that tycoons would dare to be disloyal to him.
The Ukrainian tycoons are no fools.
The tycoons might not oust Yanukovych, but they will check his power.
Similarly, the tycoons advocate restored cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, because they want access to credit at reasonable interest rates.
For example, in various countries, voters have been tempted to elect business tycoons: enough with politicians bickering over selfish interests – let the can-do strongmen take charge and run countries like corporations.
Despite its flaws, a system in which elected officials are held publicly accountable and can be voted out of office is still preferable to rule by tycoons or technocrats.
Hong Kong’s tycoons, press, intelligentsia, and civil servants, who normally agree on little, find themselves in complete agreement where Leung is concerned: they do not want him as Hong Kong’s next leader, despite his favorable popularity ratings.
The tycoons fear that Leung’s deeply old-fashioned communist values would hurt their oligopolies.
To complicate China’s predicament further, Hong Kong’s next leader will assume office tainted by retiring CE Donald Tsang’s undignified and possibly corrupt links with the city’s tycoons.
Like Alibaba, Apple, Google, and Facebook, the company was driven by young founders rather than older business tycoons.
When they think of wealthy individuals in poor countries, they imagine tycoons living in mansions with a retinue of servants and a fleet of expensive cars.
But business tycoons and the wealthy don’t attend his rallies and cheer his every utterance.
A revolutionary delusion has collapsed, leaving behind only the tyrannical rule of a class of corrupt tycoons – effectively a mafia – that has purchased the military’s loyalty with massive cash bonuses and lucrative oil-smuggling and drug-trafficking deals.
By contrast, the modern social welfare state that has served developed countries so well was not handed down by tycoons and politicians.
For example, in the second half of the nineteenth century, when powerful tycoons, the “robber barons,” came to dominate America’s economy and politics, they weren’t reined in by the courts or Congress (on the contrary, they controlled these government branches).
The robber barons and the institutions empowering them were held to account when people mobilized, organized, and managed to elect politicians promising to regulate the tycoons, level the economic playing field, and increase democratic participation by, for example, introducing direct election of senators.
He set the tone for his presidency by withdrawing the US from the Paris climate agreement, shamelessly placing the financial interests of America’s fossil-fuel tycoons above the existential interest of the rest of humanity.
For example, the “Big Four” California railway tycoons (Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) controlled not just freight rates but also the state legislature.
They fear that these “modernizing” laws will pave the way for the predatory corporate commercialization of Indian agriculture, led by politically well-connected tycoons.
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