> Too often, middle class people infantilise the working class, refuse to accept that they have agency, and ascribe their lives and behaviour to externalities a

> Too often, middle class people infantilise the working class, refuse to accept that they have agency, and ascribe their lives and behaviour to externalities and societal injustice. This doesn't help anyone, it just reinforces the division of society and stops us seeing our neighbour (regardless of class, wealth, etc) as essentially the same as us. I disagree, at least to some degree. My counterpoint is to merely point to the “fundamental attribution bias” as being the usual direction of human cognitive biases. The general idea is to “enable” people to have more agency and to give them the tools and support they need to make informed, self-interested decisions. The idea is not to blame externalities directly.