>>16544840>>16545544though I whole heartedly agree that its too heavy for the target demographic, they did already do a pretty good job of strawmanning rich people as either assholes or useless elitists already.
>Just about everybody in the battle chateau is a jerk who thinks them entitled to beat you, or alludes to leading a vapid and shallow existence, and is either depressed about it or too rich to care.>This extends to the vast majority of rich boys that you encounter outside of the Battle Chateau too.>In the poke flute arc, they went out of their way to present the guy who loaned it to you as an aristocrat fallen from grace, and Shauna (the girl who exists only to be cute and lovable otherwise) constantly complained about how much she couldn't stand him. (Which is really just projecting how you are supposed to feel by extension.)> The ancient King being evil was at least necessary to the story.>The fact that Lysandre was descended from him (and thus of aristocratic birth) certainly wasn't.Also, the first book of the ancient war history in Lysandre Labs reads:
"Over the ages, people and pokemon worked alongside one another and created many things."
"As a result of this, a leader appeared among the humans."
"That leader sought to produce even more goods."
"Increased production of goods created a gap between haves and have-nots."
They wouldn't do it, but they certainly left the framework in place.
