Yes they have....
and that is alright as long as they came by it honest and as long as all the trappings are still available to anyone that does happen to have the money or hits the lottery.
The situation that I fear is where certain things would be denied by regulation based on where you live, what you do or anything related to your station in life, all for the graeter good.
Anyway, like I said, a simple discussion of energy efficient housing is no reason to go all paranoid about the evil intelligenzia