I mean, even being the greediest possible bastards would suffice. but that involves seeing the end of the empire fast approaching them and their own ideology has blinded them to the possibility. so rather than spend a little money today so they can continue to extract, extract, extract, they'll try and continue their neoliberal BS right up until the second it dawns on them that they've gone too far - whether that's before the only option left for them is to flee or face the wall, that remains to be seen.