Honestly, if you are ruling a literal empire, throwing an extravagant dinner party seems like a relatively benign use of power? Like, of course a bunch of them

Honestly, if you are ruling a literal empire, throwing an extravagant dinner party seems like a relatively benign use of power? Like, of course a bunch of them were bored and did even more degenerate stuff, but most of it just seems plain political convenience? In modern times, if you have guests worth several billion over you don’t expect to impress them with a fancy pudding either.