That ending could account for it, though ... that was heartbreaking. But also this: never underestimate how many people want to have princely money to use on someone else, and resent being reminded that they are still in the victim position. In the U.S., half our politics is explained by remembering that certain people fancy that they are superior to me, and would love to be in the position their great-grandparents would have been before my grandparents got up and left them. Never underestimate how many sheep fancy themselves wolves, and do not want the system overthrown: they just want to move to the other side of it. They likely downvoted that article just because of the cognitive dissonance of recognizing in themselves the desire to have princely money and being reminded they are the victims, with no one coming to save them from what they do not want to be truly saved from.