Isn't this how it always works? Not a snarky comment. This is a distinct and pervasive pattern. It also aligns quite well with many elitie globalist double standards.

I often encounter their proposals and briefly see the wisdom there in, but quickly remember it only applies to plebes, not them.

If you look at how oppressed much the population is in the US, it's pretty significant. From unfair taxation, small business hurdles, energy and utility regulation, arbitrary code enforcement regardless of actual quality, etc. And then there seems an unspoken rule enforcing centralization and penalizing anything that attempts otherwise.

It may seem a bit trite, but from my perspective, the public seems managed more as livestock than intelligent beings. I also think the new foisted age of data centers and AI will make this much more evident.