Imagine she has a clone in the same governmental position right next door.  This is a thought experiment, obviously.<p>Her neighborhood will have a slightly lower standard of living than her clone because the residents have no where to park, are not a cultural fit with the neighborhood, their voting patterns and motivations are not the same as their neighbors or are otherwise screwing up carefully gerrymandered districts (WRT funding local schools or police, for example).<p>Also there are likely zoning issues based on old laws, for example maybe the zoning laws somehow prohibit my long dead great grandfather from running a small accounting practice or a yoga studio next door by banning retail traffic, but somehow they&#x27;re skirting the zoning laws by sneakily not allowing retail traffic or visitors or some other cheaty hack of the local zoning laws.  This will also make her life a living hell when the zoning laws are inevitably changed to permit the outsiders and suddenly neighbor X is screaming because neighbor Y used the new loosened rules to sneak in an autobody repair business and is legally running a weld grinder at 2am every night and neighbor Z is dumping waste from his home electroplating business in his backyard.<p>Now she can&#x27;t go out in public and start whining that she doesn&#x27;t want to do work and take risks in exchange for the same salary she got for doing basically nothing, like in the past.  And she can&#x27;t whine in public about how they screwed up the perfectly gerrymandered districts.  And she can&#x27;t whine in public about cultural fit because we tolerate, even encourage, that in business but in public thats just old fashioned racism, whatever-ism, etc, and that doesn&#x27;t fly in public.  But she can go in public and rant about how &quot;they hate us because we cling to our God and our guns&quot; and &quot;they hate us because they&#x27;re rich&quot; or whatever.  So she&#x27;s a bundle of hate and anger but all she can say in public about it is babble.<p>So from an empathy standpoint, whats in it for her?  Oh nothing?  But there is a huge potential downside?  Well there you go.