the amount of empathy we have for ppl is anticorrelated with the size of their bank account
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Wealth exempts one from subjection to arguably the worst parts of the human condition (e.g. physical suffering)
It seems rational that this poses some aspect of disconnect in the empathetic bridge
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which is totally insane considering how most rich people make the world a better place for everyone to live in.
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Absurd. What's the degree of effective "humanization"? The destitute seem most often forgotten. What's the economy of attention in a winner takes all society?
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I've been rich. I've been poor. Rich is better.
The poor hate the rich, the rich despise the poor, and the middle class gets it from both ends.
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Of course the struggle of the oppressed 1%, while the poor bask in the glory of impoverishment.
Your worst tweet by some distance…
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