I agree with the overall point, but I don't agree that those who "came up from the bottom" are sort of magically imbued with this moral superiority that > But

I agree with the overall point, but I don't agree that those who "came up from the bottom" are sort of magically imbued with this moral superiority that > But the worker, who had to make hard tradeoffs, learn to serve and deal with having little, is naturally on a different level. Implies. Take running for example. No one in modern society "needs" to run, but I took up endurance running and doing something like running a marathon teaches you a lot. Probably many of the same lessons you're imagining. All that to say, growing up poor I'd agree is probably pretty likely to imbue you with those learnings. It doesn't mean that people who haven't experienced scarcity have never learned those lessons.