Clearly, inequality and injustice is embedded within this circuit. The actors who unfairly benefit are the consumers in Bangkok; Bangkok shopping mall and real estate developers; shareholders and executives of the Thai energy, construction, and finance companies; and Lao Communist Party leaders. The powerless losers are the local Lao communities, the wildlife and ecosystems affected by the dams, and perhaps—if more dams are built on the Mekong mainstream—downstream Cambodian communities and the wildlife there. However, very few of the Bangkok electricity consumers are aware of the injustices they are helping to perpetuate, rarely questioning the sources of their electricity. While they have protested against dams planned to be built in Thailand, such as the Mae Wong dam (which endangered Thai wildlife), they have been mostly silent when it comes to dam building in Laos. While a number of villagers sued the government for signing the Xayaburi power purchase agreement, all of them lived in Northeast Thailand near the Mekong.