One is to push the envelope in luxury on your end.
The other is to deny ever more basic things to the swinish multitude.
Things like straws, plastic bags and... well, food, are ways the elites increase its own status by denying us.
Orwell remarked in 1984 that the Inner Party did not live particularly well by the standards of the early 20th century, but the fact that everyone else was even more deprived made it matter all the more.
There are two ways to increase your status.
One is to push the envelope in luxury on your end.
The other is to deny ever more basic things to the swinish multitude.
Things like straws, plastic bags and... well, food, are ways the elites increase its own status by denying us.
Orwell remarked in 1984 that the Inner Party did not live particularly well by the standards of the early 20th century, but the fact that everyone else was even more deprived made it matter all the more.
Not to mention car and air travel..
Or heat for your homes, apparently.