"They want more for themsleves...

and less for everybody else."

That was George Carlin (on "Who Owns You)".
He dead.
He dead the day before yesterday, or summat round there. He was 71.
A very interesting man, amazingly outspoken and undeniably interesting and invariably funny. Hilarious at times! I could just dumb-sit watching a TV screen & laugh like an idiot. It's not that I wanted to clap knowingly at the irreverent truths he would (dare) express -- it's that, too, but that's a bit conventionally stereotyped. No, it's the plain hilarity of some of the things he said and the way he said them.

So why pick that quotation above? Because it is the only time I know of, where I would venture a rephrasing.

Here's what I propose:
From,
"they want more for themselves and less for everybody else" to
"they want so much more for themselves that there's not enough to go round... So they've got to take some of yours -- what else can they do? It's not personal".

Have fun, mate, wherever you may be! Enjoy. And bash all those pretentious, self-serving, plutocratic, smug spirits out there, too.