Well they were only getting one golden egg a day. If they cut the goose open they could get all the eggs in one go.

This is the most mind-blowing thing to me: a bunch of multi-hundred-billionaries all standing beside a billionaire that shits in a gold toilet and is in charge of the richest country on Earth angrily proclaiming that "Everyone is taking advantage of us!"

Seeing yourself as a victim makes it easy to justify your actions.