At the beginning, Napoleon works with Snowball to coordinate and plan the farm events. They are usually mentioned together in a leadership role, and it is explained that the pigs are smarter than the other animals anyway. Later, however, Napoleon begins to enforce his role as a dictator instead of an equal citizen, and with the other pigs, he stops pretending to contribute. One good example of this comes after Snowball is expelled, when Napoleon authorizes the windmill project:
The plans, however, had all been prepared, down to the last detail. A special committee of pigs had been at work upon them for the past three weeks.
(Orwell, Animal Farm, msxnet.org)
This is nonsense, of course; the plans were already drawn up by Snowball, but Napoleon takes credit for them and pretends that he and the other pigs had been working hard on them all along. By taking credit for the work of others, using many more resources for himself while reducing them for others, and limiting dissent and free speech, Napoleon contributes nothing to "the common good" while allowing others to work and die for his direct benefit.
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