Maybe Skins didn't give an answer, because the mole wasn't specific enough. After all, you have the lowly normal non-paying primitives, but then you have the ones that fund Skin's vacation account. There are two different sets of criterion used to decide on locking a thread- one set for those that donate, and another for those that don't.
I've seen the word plutocracy thrown around often lately. Would one of you primitives like to row over here and explain to us, in your own words, how the island is not a plutocracy?