[Wyatt's Torch]

Exactly. Why are we wasting time talking about real individual people when we have a nebulous “population” to talk about...

[lentulusgracchus]

That's right .... treat the lumpen population, keep dealing with problems in the abstract, at the populational level, and you can broom all these individual personal problems under the rug, one at a time.

That's how you run a bureaucracy ..... especially in a country where the people don't like you and you're exercising their government powers in adverse possession, against their interest and to their manifest injury, because Osagyefo Boss Man hates their lily-white guts.