Their own lives were comfortable and easy in the middle class. Risking it all for revolution to help other people is not in their class interests.
They think it’s not in their class interests because they’ve been conditioned to see themselves as “temporarily impoverished billionaires” and that any day can be their lucky day to join the Big Boys upstairs as long as they keep standing on the backs of theworking class people who are only beneath them because the shiny dress shoes of some 9-5 middle manager that keeps kicking them in the face as he tries to claw his way up an imaginary food chain.
Sorry if I’m getting overly ranty and/or poetic but I feel this should be a no-brainer and I’m getting passionate.