I've seen this dynamic play out in my small city with breweries. The wealthy class opened breweries in order to revitalize neighborhoods they had bought large a

I've seen this dynamic play out in my small city with breweries. The wealthy class opened breweries in order to revitalize neighborhoods they had bought large amounts of property in, and they ended up making profits on the scale off $100 million. The breweries were never intended to be profitable on their own, they were only intended to be window dressing on an industrial area. It's no coincidence that the owners of the breweries have the same last names as many of the wealthiest and most influential families in the area, and it's no coincidence that some of those same names show up on a number of plantations that were here 200 years ago.