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

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

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.

The psychological mechanisms that help someone accumulate extreme wealth, such as confidence, risk tolerance, or self-belief, are the same mechanisms that destroy their ability to understand how life works for everyone else.