Iain M. Banks said this quote
“ As a matter of fact I did flirt with Socialism, in my youth.That when you were in university, was it?He smiled. Yes. University. But then I saw how much more comfortable life could be as one of the exploiters rather than one of the exploited. Plus I decided that if the proles were so stupid as to let themselves be exploited, who was I to stand in their way? ”