It's not a country - it's a collection of individual billionaires. Each billionaire involved in these kinds of deals gets richer, and has no reason to care about anyone else.

Yes, but we’ve apparently chosen to run our country in such a way.

"we" never got any say in the matter.

By not doing anything to stop it, we agreed to it. No options to stop it were presented, but we weren't limited to the presented options.