One of the things I hear more frequently discussed in this MAGA/Tech oligarch fixation on Europe......

[marmar]

...... at least on social media, perhaps not so much the MSM, is that there are "few things harder to put up with than a good example."
There's the bluster about "preserving Western civilization" and preserving Europe's whiteness, but the actual target is the fact that well-regulated capitalism with a strong social safety net works. They've just about destroyed it here, so their target is Western Europe. fElon Musk and the tech oligarchs are out to kill the EU's efforts to regulate them.
Again, there's no MSM discussion of this, but I'm hearing it more and more from the social media I consume.

[malaise]

1. Nailed it that's the target

Poverty for all but the billionaires.

[ColoringFool]

2. FOLLOW THE MONEY. PRIVATIZE THE WORLD. That's The Goal.

[Hey Joe]

3. The oligarchs wet dream is to kill off the

“useless eaters”, the poor, sick and elderly.
Everyone else will be poorer, less healthy with little to no insurance, and less educated.
This will leave a class of people who are so desperate for work they will take whatever
menial job they can get, leaving them hanging on by their fingernails just to exist.
Most current events lead to this scenario.

[spanone]

4. K&R

[róisín_dubh]

5. Well 21st century Europe needs to follow late 18th century France's lead...

when it came to the filthy rich...

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. The richest European (Bernard Arnault) has got rich by selling luxury goods

which I think is the least evil way people have done it. If there's anything that is voluntary, it's paying over the odds for status symbols.

$720B United States Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX 2020
$270B United States Larry Page Alphabet 2021
$230B United States Larry Ellison Oracle 2021
$240B United States Jeff Bezos Amazon 2017
$250B United States Sergey Brin Alphabet 2021
$210B United States Mark Zuckerberg Meta 2020
$180B France Bernard Arnault LVMH 2020
$160B United States Jensen Huang Nvidia 2024
$140B United States Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway 2021
$140B Spain Amancio Ortega Inditex 2024
$140B United States Steve Ballmer Microsoft 2021
$130B United States Michael Dell Dell Technologies 2025
$130B United States Rob Walton Walmart 2025
$130B United States Jim Walton Walmart 2025
$120B United States Alice Walton Walmart 2025
$100B India Mukesh Ambani Reliance Industries 2021, 2024
$100B United States Michael Bloomberg Bloomberg 2024
$100B United States Bill Gates Microsoft 1999
$100B Mexico Carlos Slim América Móvil, Grupo Carso 2023

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

Ortega owns the Zara and Bershka clothing and accessories shops. He is considered a pioneer in fast fashion. That's environmentally bad, but that makes 2 Europeans in the top 19, and one had the most willing buy-in of his marks. And neither is in the class of "take over the world" that Musk, Ellison, Bezos of Zuckerberg are.