And why should there be? There's clearly one set of each for one set of people and another for the rest of us.
And though it's always been that way to some extent, these days it is so out there, on such a gigantic scale, and so in your face that it dwarfs all historical comparison..
Not quite unprecedented, but close. The
Ancien Régime of the later Louis' and Czarist Russia were unabashed about the separation between the absolute elite and, literally, everyone else. The bottom of society didn't deserve a first thought much less a second. What the masses thought about the opulent lives of the uppermost class was of as little import to the strutting rulers as what the floor thought about being walked across.
