Or they act as Balaam, encouraging their “lessers” to live debauched lives knowing that their lessers, thus abandoned by God, will then be dependent on and easily controlled by such evil people.
It doesn’t have to be an either or. It’s both. There are the “community agitators” (what I call the scab pickers) who inflame the masses with envy in order to control them, and then there are the bleeding hearts who want to spend your money to relieve themselves of their guilt.