By and large, you are correct. I think it's just a human condition that if you make 10x what the poverty line is you are also 10x unable to sympathize or empath

By and large, you are correct. I think it's just a human condition that if you make 10x what the poverty line is you are also 10x unable to sympathize or empathize with those making less. It's very easy to feel like a rational human when you have everything you need and more. It's too easy to blame the poor for making bad decisions. They are operating under an entirely different logic system and reality is bent in ways the upper 20% cannot fathom unless they've been there. It's especially galling when success in this country is increasingly tied to a birth lottery that the winners justify the system with such disregard to the unfortunate.