re: #116 Romantic Heretic
The modern rich are like the feudal lords of old. They have no relationship to geography, other than a source of power and wealth.
They are unconcerned with the people who actually live in places, who try to raise families and futures there. The serfs are something to be used, to destruction if necessary.
Think about Europe’s Hapsburgs or Bourbons. Nations and peoples were just properties on a Monopoly board