This is the site of a tech investment company. Its full of the rich and powerful who are protecting themselves.

Aspiring rich and powerful. Most people here (myself very much included) remain part of the precariat, and the fangs-out defense of the rich and powerful is most frequently done by those who, in the end, may manage to not lose but likely will not win.

John Steinbeck wasn't wrong.

Human beings are tribal creatures, not individualists.

As such, we have leaders and followers.

By definition of leaders and followers, most people will be followers, whether for genetic or environmental reasons.

Followers will always support those who are leaders. In our current society, that would mean the powerful.

If you don't believe me, look at behavioral sciences. Most people will shock someone to death just because an authority said so (yes the Millgram experiments were biased, but the results aren't completely invalidated by that)