People in Congress make a decent amount of money. On paper, they make around $174,000 a year. In practice, many also rake in cash from things like book deals, land investments and stock trades that definitely do not constitute insider trading. Consequently, a majority of American lawmakers are millionaires.

This begs the question: if you’ve already got millions of dollars, why on Earth are you still in Congress?

This is a realization that a bunch of legislators (allegedly) came to last week. After the announced mid-term retirement of Marjorie Taylor Greene, insiders saw a wave of lawmakers began quietly considering calling it quits. They’re looking at the current state of the world and the U.S. government and deciding they no longer want to be associated with it.

For some on the Right, they simply want to save the embarrassment of losing a mid-term election while opening up the opportunity for them to get a talking-head job as someone who “saw this all coming” at a news station. Others have simply realized, even though Congress is an incredibly easy job, they don’t *have* to do it — and so, they simply plan to spend the rest of their lives coasting off their investments and speaking fees.

I want to be upset, but honestly, I’m just jealous.