[rightwingcrazy]

Not necessarily hypocritical. The elites’ vision of a perfect society doesn’t require changes to their own lifestyles, only to ours. They get to enjoy their Kobe beef, SUVs and private jets; the world becomes sustainable when the hoi polloi, those few who haven’t starved or frozen to death, dwell in caves and feed off the scraps of their betters, whom they revere and serve.

[rktman]

Thus the “Quiet peons.” comment.

[Zhang Fei]

[Not necessarily hypocritical. The elites’ vision of a perfect society doesn’t require changes to their own lifestyles, only to ours. They get to enjoy their Kobe beef, SUVs and private jets; the world becomes sustainable when the hoi polloi, those few who haven’t starved or frozen to death, dwell in caves and feed off the scraps of their betters, whom they revere and serve.]

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Precisely. If permission to consume or operate these things were assigned by random lottery rather than by wealth, they’d be far less likely to support high taxes on these items. The entire point of their fashionable causes is making the luxury items they currently use even more exclusive. It’s not enough that they splurge - others must be deprived.