Absolutely, though the networks of 'unloving essence' are not limited only to the most wealthy or 'powerful' in society - there is a hidden side to this which involves people at all tiers of society denying their own power and thus being unloving to themselves. The ones who 'call the shots' mostly only have denied power of other people to work with. We need to include our own will and self within the definition of love - something that has been frowned upon by confused people since the beginning.
The problem, in general, is a lack of acceptance for real emotions and this has led to the vast pools of unprocessed emotions that tend to degrade into terror/rage and hate over time as they feel more and more rejected. This is why we find seemingly small triggers sometimes exploding out of all proportion in a person who is very backed up (the origin of many murders, road rage and wars). Anyone who is out of balance due to denial will find that they are open to becoming a puppet for some other entity, yes.
Knowing who we are and our connection to 'all that is' is necessary to remove the fixation on money and to know that it is only a symbol of abundance that is not really necessary at all. That being said, we are in a grey area where many people already know this but many others don't and we don't yet have a majority who are headed for liberation.. So, we have these 'interesting' clashes happening.
I am fairly clear that Justin Sun's activity was CCP orchestrated as Steem was the only real free speech network on the web at the time.. He just happened to come out of Wuhan and buy Steem to censor it just as COVID19 'happened' in Wuhan. I also experienced Tribe.net getting shut down by Cisco (CCP allied) years ago too - so I am under no illusion that the same thing could be happening again here and may continue to happen until we find a solid fix.
In the case of Hive, being able to create (fork) individual niche communities on Hive should make each community as defendable as Steem was overall, once it was forked into Hive. Fun times ahead! lol
RE: The Hive Whitepaper and updating the DPoS protocols for downvoting with a community proposal.