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The OCD that drives them to hoard vast amounts of money, also makes them control freaks. They aren't going to wait for the government to do their job and protect anyone from anyone. They are actively weakening America, and other countries, just so the governments will be corrupt enough for the Psychopathic Oligarchs to bribe their way to anything they want, but still be too weak for the govt to fight back when they finally realize they've created a monster.
And eventually, after they all have trillions of dollars, with trillions more pouring in, it won't be about making more money, it will be about taking the other guys' money. By then, governments will be irrelevant, and we will be back to monarchies, and the expense didn't keep the old European kings from warring with each other.
Stop psychologizing the present day oligarchs in a vacuum. It's not about the government protecting anyone.
This is the definition of government.
The reason oligarchs don't have an incentive to build private armies over the last several centuries is because competing with other oligarchs through warfare DESTROYS CAPITAL.
It's not about protection. It's about waste. It's less wasteful to win Bezos yacht in court than it is to bomb it and sink it to the bottom of the sea.