It is much easier to be nice when you are successful in the sense that you don't have to work as hard to benefit the people around you. Yet when it is actually

It is much easier to be nice when you are successful in the sense that you don't have to work as hard to benefit the people around you. Yet when it is actually measured (by which I mean more than just considering what you think of your wealthy friends) people who are less well off turn out to be much kinder. This has been measured and isn't speculative. But regardless of the evidence we can just appeal to how people actually behave. How many successful start up people are 'nice' or even good when considered against the world net and the potential they have. We all have the opportunity for radical redistribution, but the ridiculously wealthy even more so. To talk as if they are somehow nice because they help other people of similar privilege is in very poor taste. The remarks about needing safety come off as particularly horrid in the context of the vast wealth inequality the article is describing in such a joyful way. Like fuck do successful start up owners and investors need security more than someone working a temporary contract for minimum wage to support a larger family in worse conditions. They are the people that need security and safety.