[cma256]

Uh, they spent hundreds of billions to get their flag ship products blocked by a democratic body with no possibility of recovering their capital except by concession of the people's representative?

[mannanj]

That's the trick part though.

They are playing status games, and making particular products available to specific people.

Whatever the majority of people get will be a modified, probably weakened, version of what those at higher social classes get.

> with no possibility of recovering their capital except by concession of the people's representative

This is definitely not true and its not that binary.