They subsist in a communist system.
They live large like dictators getting subsidized by who knows what that just got cut off, whatever source it was.
They don’t move in and take his audience like they would in a capitalist system. This is like communism.
They’re begging for their funding to not get cut off.
People don’t watch enough satire
“The Death of Stalin” is what this looks like to me
Again to quote one of the greatest movies of all time, “Network”:
“What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state — Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.”