AFAIK, Bill Gates is the only 1% er who does this.
What I often see even with smaller national oil refineries are more in style of 'we lose this tiny battle and sell it 100x over via massive PR campaigns, while quietly pushing through this nefarious additional oil something something'.
Political leaders don't care, they get their cut of the pie now and next election cycle is up in the stars anyway and desperately hope they and their offsprings will have one of top positions in future world. Peasants be damned.
Now with these simple facts cleared, what heart-warming message do they have for the plebs?
>There's nothing wrong with socialist leaders taking bigger slices of pie because of the good they do for the movement [1]
>You want meat to be a thing only rich people can afford? And you justify this by saying you want to help the poor? [2]
I'm not sure if their constituents are just useful [3] or if they think their master will toss them some crumbs from the table.
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/CapitalismVSocialism/comments/s2g90...