There is a band of the economic spectrum in which entrepreneurialism can be practiced at the scale and with the low barriers to entry we currently enjoy, and so macro economic news can be hacker news.

Also, many successful startups simply engage in making distractions for the middle class, so that they pay less attention to the rising temperature of the water in the pot.

The headline, perhaps, but the article itself is a very good read. It's more about what made Buffett successful and what makes a good business a good business than about plutocracy. The plutocracy bit was a sort of throwaway line in the middle of the interview used as a linkbait headline. But the interview as a whole was a lot less political than you'd expect from the headline.

Try reading the article. It's not about politics.