It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.
We raise predators by treating children as prey.
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.
If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.
Pulse proximity is not intimacy.
Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.