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Originally Posted by Matty81
I don't think they hate poor people, I just don't think they care about anybody but themselves.
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Actually, I suspect there's a frighteningly large percentage of rich Americans who really do hate* poor people.
The narrative they subscribe to is that anyone in the United States can be rich if they just work hard enough. Poor people, therefore, must be a lazy welfare bums who don't understand the value of a hard day's work and just want to leech off government handouts. It doesn't matter that this is an overly-simplistic world view that doesn't account for the myriad of socio-economic conditions that lead to the cycle of poverty and America having worse upward class mobility than most other Western democracies; this mindset is nonetheless believed by a shockingly large number of wealthy Americans.
*Or at least blame them for being poor