When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.
If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

