So long as their boot is on your face and not the other way around they win.

It still wouldn't be as good as just helping society along and enjoying the luxuries that come along with technological advancement

That being said I'm quite sure they'll be eating foie gras while laughing their asses off at the proles eating maggots.

Today's tech billionaires live better than any king who's ever existed on earth

The eating bugs thing is a dead giveaway. Humiliation those beneath you is pure exercise of power.

not so, a king ruled over all he saw. the elites today have to share

RELATIVELY, yes

and they are accountable for the most part

Relative to their time

Not ours

yes for sure

In absolute terms, people today are far better off than the nobles or kings years ago

If they just wanted to live like kings why don't they just sell their stock and go do so?

They don't even need to do that

They can fly anywhere on the planet, do anything

But at any time they could just give up their responsibilities.

Buy anything, fuck anyone

yeah thats all true

As it stands they have obligations.

They choose their obligations

Ruling over the world (or any arbitrary smaller part of it) is an unnecessary headache

They keep choosing to take on more though. They want more power, more involvement, more control.

Why would they want to do that?

Because they're sociopaths.

If that's your opinion, sure

Not sociopathy, hubris. They want to be the one to save the world, but it doesn't need saving

"The world don't wanna be saved, only left alone"

Elysian Fields, Megadeth, 1994

I don't say the C-Word often...

You're giving these people too much credit. You think Sundar Pichai, or Zuckerberg, or Soros are noble but misguided?

But what a fucking insufferable Cunt

https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-trump-obsessed-with-me-because-hes-an-illegitimate-president?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

Maybe the idiot foot soldiers at the bottom want to save the world. Those signing the checks want to control it.

<https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/aoc-chief-of-staff-confirms-green-new-deal-was-not-really-about-the-climate> "it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all ... we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing."

The elites are egoists. Maybe there is some sociopathy but its the drive to live forever through changing the world permanently

We're all elites

We're all bourgeoisie, sorry to let you know

i wish this place had a wank emoji

go apologize to a minority for being born in a first world country if it makes you feel better

ok by elites I mean the 0.0001%. The very rich and the very powerful

Fair enough

There are elites that are worthy of the title and the self anointed.