Archipelago Grand Winner

I own archipelago and have played quite a bit of rounds. In pour group, there is no winner if we lose to the game, but there is the one winner if we manage to beat the game. Archipelago is not a game for all groups, I think. The key to having fun with it is communication. You take what you can get as long as the revolt (which is the 'all lose' mechanic in the game) is not imminent. If it is, you have to prevent more unhappy folk to accumulate, so you have to prevent all the possible crisis together. You usually know who has produced which good and who has many exploration tokens left. If a crisis is not solved by the amount in the markets (the common stock, if you will), the one who has most of the needed good should usually resolve the crisis. You see, you can negotiate about anything in Archipelago. So if you are the one who is selected or even the only one to prevent the crisis, you will first see to it that your own workers are happy. Then you will want to sell your resources to the other players still in need ('You want me to make your remaining two workers happy? Hmm, what about a little financial aid? Let's say, two florins?') If revolt is imminent and no one but a single or two players have to manage the crisis over more than one round, then you should probably just let it go and lose together.

What Archipelago tries to portray is a world in which a few rich and powerful guys (the players) take control over an unexpecting world and suck it dry as much as they can. But if the exploited people are at the brink of a revolt and are about to lit the torches, you rich guys ought to maybe cooperate a bit, before the people storm your mansions and make your heads roll.

This is the way I understand the game and this is the way I think Boelinger wants it to be understood. What kind of winner is this, whose treasuries are fullest, if he is impaled like the rest of his slightly poorer fellows?