How does one join the Noble Order of the Opium Knights?

When some people have an extraordinary talent for business and success, those who have no such talent comfort themselves with the notion that some mysterious evil must be at work to allow such great achievements. They were just very good at what they did (we don't know them so we can't say much about their inner thoughts or morality). Same as assuming that the very good-looking are shallow or unintelligent - makes them easier for the rest of us to deal with i.