Again, you arent wrong.
Some dead white racis once said the natural course of society is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground...or some kinda racis shit like that
You ain't wrong...but youd have the ability to make the average citizens day a little better as much as you could. Like the stoics said, all we can control in life is ourselves
I know the pipeline foreman make like 75k or so a year. They work all over the state and get paid for 60 hours a week of work...but they make decent money. They just work, a lot