Being about conscience and one accepting themselves and capable of living with their own conscience, all the debate of others is for naught. Look at it from another angle.
The eugenicists of the 1920s to 1950s never bothered with concerning themselves over others debating if eugenics was wrong or right, and yes I'm including the eugenicists in America. They all felt they had a moral and ethical right to enact the
final solution (endgültige Lösung in the German). We, most of modern society, now comprehends eugenics as being a flavor of evil most vile. Still our debating it to the eugenicist means nothing. They accept it as morally & ethically right, proper, a virtue.
Now, if I were take you as a child and teach you that a wood burning stove was a chair. You would go sit on top of the wood burning stove as though it were a chair, giving no thought to the heat being emitted. If you did think anything of it, likely you'd not ever sit because to you it registered as being painful.
In fact you might actually go around destroying people's wood burning stoves. You would think yourself correct, ethical, moral. No one could convince you otherwise even despite harsh Winters forcing people to freeze, because you took it upon yourself to build yourself up an army to destroy wood stoves. You ran the nation as such that wood stoves would be outlawed. People might debate your actions, your argument. Would it matter to you though? I doubt it.
Adding in money does not make it any different ultimately. All you can say regarding that is someone aligned themselves with the financed majority. There's no mistake calling them a majority even if they are a physical minority. "He who controls the gold, makes the golden rules."
Money allows for building power and staying in power requires money, so you'll do anything to gain more money and keep it. Again those in such positions feel ethically, morally correct. Again, anybody arguing over it doesn't matter. They've the power obviously and unfortunate as it seems we live in a society that follows the precept and axiom "might makes right".
And this keeps repeating itself, time over time and time again. One might think humanity has matured enough to see past such obviously flawed logic. One would face a lot of kicking dead horses though as we as a race have not matured past it. I doubt we will, anymore. I've been watching, hoping beyond hope. Been cheering on, been saying we need to evolve instead of revolve. To what end? Naught.
*chuckles* All this from the simple act of winding a wire. Apologies but it bears relevance in the way you framed the argument.