Not just hypocrisy, it's the ruling-classe's complete detachment FROM REALITY.
Every collapse of EVERY civilization has WealthGap / Inequality in-Common as the leading indicator.
This is the end of times, the sunset of Mankind. Humanity's disproportionate Take from nature, it's resources, RELATIVE to Every Other organ of the Biosphere REQUIRED to keep it all running.
Our economy, oblivious to the Health of the Ecosystem, no price on pollution, no price habitat destruction, no price on a living forest, no price on a living whale.
That is IDENTICAL to the Cancer, right before it kills the Host. The fleas that done'killed'the'cat it lives on.