The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer they merely For them, is an inalienable right, a right they acquired through their own "effort," with their "courage to take risks." If others do not have more, it is beause they are incompetent and lazy, and worst of all is their unjustifiable ingratitude toward the "generous gestures" of the dominant class. Precisely because they are "ungrateful" and "envious," the oppressed are regarded as potential enemies who must be watched.