Much like Apple products, when people go to college they feel the need to defend that idea to the death. As surely they couldn't have been so silly to pay 100k to have someone stand in a big room and read the internet to them.
A few years of college does not an engineer or office manager make. The good ones are employed in those roles, the rest haven't proven to be useful enough to be afforded them.
>Why is it obvious that they get to break the system unilaterally?
Thomas Jefferson I believe explained this best:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Without the consent of the governed you do not have a legitimate government, what you have is despotism, no matter if you held a vote or not.
The UK doesn't have the regulatory capture in that space that the US does. US doctors want you to go to them for everything, and the AMA (basically a lobbying firm for doctors) is taken seriously here. in the UK you can get lots of things over the counter without doctor intervention.
>I wish more wealthy people would lead by example though. Like instead if Obamas bought much smaller place and made it carbon neutral.
Al Gore's house and travel produces more carbon per day than you will produce all year. Carbon neutrality is for poor people and developing nations. Be quiet about this fact unless you want to be labeled a climate change denier.