@ZaneSelvans Yes. Xi Jinping makes his examples too.

But I think the point broadly holds. There is a lottery, in the Shirley Jackson sense, among the rich. The political leadership may skewer the occasional oligarch to reinforce its dominance.

But those are the exceptions that prove the rule. Under authoritarian stability, the rich are filtered by the state for loyalty, but heavily implicated in, and made beneficiaries of, statecraft so long as they are loyal.