Billions in tax breaks and handouts to landlords and the well off, plum contracts for road builders, gutting rail for the benefit of trucking companies, refusing to even think about regulating or breaking up our monopolies, duopoliesand oligopolies present in nearly every single industry in NZ.

So this kinda fits with the MO - the goal isn't to provide the most efficient services to the public, its actually the opposite - insert yourselves between products, services because that inefficiency creates an opportunity to extract additional value from the public they could otherwise keep for themselves.

So I'd say yeah, it's mostly just greed and selfishness driving it. Culture wars stuff is mostly a distraction to hide the grift, however I do think there's something more sinister to it, that if people are free to express different gender, sexual and racial identities, what's to stop them getting uppity ideas about class and societal hierarchies being equally challengable?