And per usual, notice how the elitists never include themselves in these “restrictions” in standards of living recommendations. The “let them eat cake” crowd assumes that John Q Public will never ever come after them with torches, pitchforks, lots of rope and....guillotines. They always fail to study history. Their mistake. When TSHTF, their infamous faces will not be able to hide from the final justice coming their way. At least that is my current dream (or one of them).
“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
― George Orwell, 1984