Elite Capitalists are Cancer

If society is the body, then elite capitalists who exhaust resources for their own goals are cancer.

There are analogies that treat society1 as a body and describe its ills as disease. This type of treatment falls under the concept of 'The Body Politic,' an ideological scaffold that has been continuously exploited since ancient Greek philosophy, making an impression on our modern thought through works like Hobbes's Leviathan.1Or a person's view of society

Definition of Cancer (via Wikipedia):

Cancer is a group of diseases involving uncontrolled cell growth typically resulting in tumors with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

There may very well be capitalists who enjoy their lives and decide enough is enough. The cancer analogy continues to hold; they could be simply described as benign cancers. However, they still consume more resources than the rest of the body would, without any meaningful contribution to the body's overall health, and are thus non-optimal. Their being dormant makes them a non-concern to other capitalists, as they are homeostatic and don't have that thirst that drives them. Thus, while they are part of the system, these benign capitalists aren't elite within the system itself.

The pernicious capitalists are malignant: they invade other areas and extract resources without contributing in any meaningful way. The result is that the areas they have invaded become starved and die, leaving the rest of society to deal with the negative externalities and spillover effects induced by the cancer.