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?

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.