i am finally answered

And, this finally answers the question of why they would sustain spending so much more on think tanks, media whores and lobbyists than they could save in fifty lifetimes full of no taxes. They really do care about their legacies, their descendents. They want a less populated world that exists completely in service of their every whim, with armies of well-paid protectors from their carefully-bred slaves. Somebody should do the math on how fast the human-caused global warming might reverse with just a few more nukes and a halved population. You gotta do it, because if the greedheads have made any mistakes in their math, the whole planet will die with them, with us.