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Khanzumers are the only truely evil beings on Oddworld. Glukkons, Wolvarks, Vykkers, they're all victims of circumstance and their own evolution. They are different cultures with different values, and are not inherently evil. Khanzumers are evil. I interpret this to mean they are selfish, greedy and lazy despite not having any reason to (Glukkons are greedy because they need to pay their rent). They're Oddworld's version of Earth's consumers. We're all too happy to drive gas-guzzlers or book cheap flights if it'll get us from A to B faster and more comfortably; we'll look for the cheapest goods on the market without considering the œconomic and environmental consequences their mass production is causing elsewhere in the world.
Now if that's true, then I don't see them as being insanely rich or politically powerful. I can't see them struggling to keep up their mortgage payments, either. To me, they seem to embody the worst qualities of the upper and lower classes combined.
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It's true that they are probably based on the greedy human consumer society, but that doesn't really make them evil. Think about humans today, the whole of our species used to be fairly decent and hardworking, but over time, technology became better at fullfilling our needs until it became ingrained into our society itself. Humans today aren't 'evil,' they're just going with the flow of today's world. They're on a train they can't stop and that's probably the same case with khanzumerz.