I heart your word put togethering...
Also can we call "the elite" something else? talk about doublespeak... the elite what? Elite warmongers? greed monsters? planet killers? money hoarders? despair profiteerers? resource exploiters? cost externalizers?...
I've also used slavemasters and even The Great Satan.
Cancer is also a fun parallel definition.
ooh, i do like the great satan. sociopaths is a good one too, although I wonder about that. Certainly theyd have to be sociopaths at least but that seems like a bit of an unerestimation...
There are also a lot of people out there at the top that get pressured into messed up decisions in order to compete... it's like performance enhancing drugs in professional sports: everyone is doing it so I have to as well if I want to compete.
true, like baby's blood transfusions.