If this is the case then the powers that be are scamming us.
The question is why?
What scam are you talking about?
“The question is why?”
Dominance. It is probably as simple as that - the orgasmic ecstasy of holding power over others, for the maimed personalities who think that way.
Think about what you see in the typical politician, or NGO apparat. Power lust, pure and simple.
Power.
Control.
Enslavement.
The Left, the idealists among them anyway, has a very feudal and royalist view of proper relationships of ruler to ruled. They are the ones who dream about Camelot and conservatives can get dreamy about Camelot, too, because they don’t understand the type of economy and society it is that sustains a Camelot. There is not room in it for anything between bare subsistence masses and opulent rulers.