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My mom was a cleaning lady, and some of her clients were among the richest people in Canada. The last few years she worked, she started struggling physically so I went in to work with her to help, and I met all of her employers. Every one of them were very nice people. Not every rich person is an evil asshole. We're still friends with some of them.
They can be the nicest people you know, yet, still bastards because their fortunes are stolen from the backs of those who labored due to how our economic system is structured to distribute ownership of resources. It is based on the diametrically oppositional interests of workers versus the interests of owners/shareholders. What is good for one is intrinsically bad for the other.
Owning class makes their money from the profit of companies they have share in or are the executives of. Profits are Revenue minus Expenses. Worker wages, benefits, upgrading/fixing equipment and working conditions, etc... are all Expenses. This means that there is always the dichotomy between money going to Profit, thus the pocket of the owning class, or to Expenses, thus going to workers in the form of wages, benefits, or improved working conditions.
Same thing with "ACAB". Police are pigs not because they are assholes (though most are, that's a different topic), but because of their systemic function in society.