Not "the shareholder class" but the actual super wealthy, those few thousand individuals at the top. A way I have recently seen this put is that if you have a

Not "the shareholder class" but the actual super wealthy, those few thousand individuals at the top. A way I have recently seen this put is that if you have a billion dollars another billion doesn't do that much for you in real terms. But if you're a billionaire who likes to sexually harass your child's nanny, you would much prefer she be desperate and precarious rather than economically secure or with a lot of other viable options. This is one crude example but the dynamic is in play in many other situations. So idk, it's plausible to me that the class interests of the wealthy extend beyond mere wealth accumulation. I can imagine circumstances where they would be willing to give up some of their absolute wealth in exchange for greater relative wealth.