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.

I wish I could just annoint myself a title.

Just did it

If you live in a western country you are the 0.0001%

You probably mean people who make more than a million dollars a year probably because they are smarter and work harder than you do.

@Jokerfaic just change your pronouns to Emperor if you want a title

Glad Dumpf is getting impeached.

By the most corrupt party on the planet today, the Democrats also the rest of their Uniparty cronies.

House leader Nancy Pelosi is too incompetant to hold the Office of Presidency and the Democrat party is full of power hungry lunatics so I don't think good for the Future of America for the Democrats in the state they have been in for a long time.