[Like the rest? No, putting others on their own level would be giving them too much credit. Still, the mild look of surprise he offers up suggests curiosity more than disagreement.]

Is our position that unfavourable?

Most people at the bottom are there by choice, you know. They constrain themselves with delusions of their own, by thinking they can't just do whatever they want. So many of them don't understand our lives are all equally meaningless.