If individuals live in halls of power and primarily know people with ample resources or power, their view becomes blinkered in a specific, repeatable, scientific way.

Extreme wealth literally damages a person's brain's ability to understand other people.

Across dozens of experiments, Dacher Keltner and his colleagues found that when people felt powerful, they became worse at reading other people's emotions and imagining life from someone else's point of view.

Human perception operating under conditions of extreme wealth or power creates predictable distortions.