caprice, vagaries, desires, dictates, vicissitudes, fickleness, exigencies, machinations, whimsies, preferences, egotists, inclinations, detriment, avarice, blandishments, subservience, diktat, heedless, truckling, malleable, sycophants, kowtow, interests, prerogative, capriciousness, pander, thrall, pelf, craven, rapacity, demands, cronies, expediency, oligarchy, destinies, aggrandizement, agendas, wiles, apron strings, mercies, lackeys, greed, coterie, prigs, fantasies, bureaucrats, fiat, manipulators, servility, benevolence, potentates, sycophancy, sheeplike, carte blanche, opportunists, martinets, fancies, obstinacy, yearnings, plaything, egoists, manipulations, incompetents, factotums, despots, proclivities, slothfulness, technocracy, impositions, tyrants, obsessions, tinhorn, compulsions, cabal, prejudices, aristocracies, obsequiousness, exploiters, edicts, egos, intriguers, beneficence, fealty, mammon, fads, fetters, plutocrats, lusts, cupidity, plebeians, megalomania, hunches, paymasters, largesse, patronage, congeries, insatiability, profiteers, strictures, ideology, omnipotence, acquiescence, whim, caprices, freaks, vagary, fancy, antics, whimsy, follies, infatuations, likes, eccentricities, enthusiasms, quirks, extravagances, fashions, grimaces

indulgence, self-indulgence