I work in education. In PA where there's been a gas boom for a while. The thing is and I think you kinda touch on it is some people benefit a little, some a lot and others not at all, but everyone is harmed by environmental and infrastructure damage. Land made useless, roads ruined, etc. During most of the years of the recent "gas boom" in education every year there has been cuts but the oil / gas industry is hardly taxed. The problem isn't that the taxes and regulations demand they employ less people... but they would make less money and really, they should. This is the crux of the biggest economic problems we face. The when the big guys need to take a hit they use the working folks as their ropes in their financial rope-a-dope, letting furloughs take the hit. This isn't demonetization, this is reality. They could still be rich, they'd just be less rich The people who work in the field earn their cash, it's often dangerous and arguably very necessary work but the guys in charge profit off of everyone else and the extent to which they do makes them pretty good bad guy foder.
Once again, it's worth noting that some of Olies best friends hold vastly different view-points and Olie is notably not always right but he is very passionate and his heart is in the right place.