A lot of those slugs own salt shakers, is the thing. Small business owners and landlorda and slugs with retirement investments are, themselves, salting other slugs. There’s also some slugs which have been promoted to salt shakers by their salty bosses, so even if they don’t own the salt shakers themselves they still get to use it and benefit from it.

They’re fine getting a little salt as long as they can keep salting the people under them.