golden billion

English

Etymology

Calque of Russian золото́й миллиа́рд (zolotój milliárd).

Noun

golden billion (plural golden billions)

  1. The world's richest billion people, maintained by an indefinite elite which supposedly pulls strings to amass wealth and destroy regular people’s lives.
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