Comrades! Do not be deceived into thinking that our elite enjoy air-conditioning during hot days and heating during cold nights. The chill and low humidity of air-conditioning causes them great discomfort, that they are willing to undergo in order for them to do the peoples’ work and to save Mother Earth.
Just as you wouldn’t expect them to walk or bike the 15 minutes to their workplace, you cannot expect them to work for us when shivering prevents them from writing necessary diktats for the public good.
(Just yesterday my wife and I were discussing the movie Psycho. In the real estate office, only the boss’s office had a/c. The secretaries had to endure the heat. That’s the future planned for us.)
I believe “In the Heat of the Night” was the same way