Those in the Imperial Core will never understand that what they consider unbearable hardship and boredom is actually a life of luxury that the vast majority of people on Earth cannot even imagine.
The international division of labor is 1000x more important and impactful than the domestic one.
Of course they're taken for granted, a lot of people that grow up comfortable just assume that's the baseline. They don't know that there's a whole other world out there. It's just something that other people live, to them.
This guy spends 6 hours in the office a day and people are acting as if it's the apocalypse or something.