You're talking about people defined by the way they dive into treat consumption to escape from hellworld and build their entire worldview around their treats. Within a libertine framework like that the single gravest sin someone can commit is in some way threatening their endless treat flow.
It's the same way that a bunch of disaffected passively-chauvinist libertines with vaguely socdem and anti-clerical beliefs became motivated gibbering bloodthirsty tradcath fascists the second they became the target of an astroturfing campaign to convince them women and minorities were conspiring to make their fun time treats less tasty.
This is just a rare case of their boundless treat lust being targeted onto parasitic capitalists who are trying to extract extra value out of commodities by hoarding them and serving as extra-legal middlemen.
Don't you see, the devious celestials have rudely and sneakily placed their country atop this bounty of naturally occurring industrial extractive capital and resource extraction operations, and in their peerless arrogance they have not simply gifted it to us, the divine and rightful masters of all creation!