Materially, for sure, absolutely. They swim in luxury until they become the lizards from Fear and Loathing. At the same time, I don't think their weird weepy bullshit is entirely just a cynical affectation. I think the current era really is breaking their brains, especially because their whole job precludes any kind of marxist analysis, or at least their contracts depend on them keeping it to themselves. That's gotta be a mental pressure cooker of some kind when your job is to talk about RUSSIAN:cyber-lenin:HACKERS in perpetuity. They've got terror-blue balls.