Read the Atlas Shrugged subplot about Francisco D'Anconia.
A millionaire playboy that owned a Copper Mining Dynasty. He was able to bankrupt a ton of deep state morons who tried to latch onto his work because 1)they assumed that his motive was to make money through his copper mines. 2) He wouldn't dare act against his perceived self-interest and 3) that he would allow himself to be sacrificed on the false altar of socialism for "the people".
He threw huge sums of money into copper mines in countries that he knew, as things got desperate, would "nationalize" (steal) his work under the above assumptions that they would then be able to steal the profits, with corrupt pieces of shit in this country investing in the company to reap wild profits when they gutted him.
The mines were worthless. He played their greed and corruption against them to wipe out their fake money.