Are they genuinely the least compassionate or is it more that you find their lack of compassion incongruous?
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Possibly

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Poverty is a grinding thing, it tries to pull you back in many different forms. I don't think it's simply hatred/contempt, it's much deeper, it's pain, anger, a fight to stay above and a scarring of the past.
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Yes, all that. I have zero direct experience of it, but a largish sample set. I’d say about 20% have turned “evil” turning into the warders of the prisons they escaped.
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Some of the most compassionate people come from this experience as well. It’s a crucible for revealing your capacity for empathy. I wonder if one of these groups is more likely to reveal their history and how it informs their ethics
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(Consider this a proposal, or a question, rather than an assertion)
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I agree and this train of thought comes up for myself frequently. Why do you think this is?
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Imposter syndrome maybe? The still-feel-like-that-kid-though-I-no-longer-look-the-part. And if I hurl enough vitriol at that “reflection” I’ll reinforce my new position, the us-vs-them (where I remind you that I’m not them) and hope that it won’t be taken away from me.
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Followed very closely by privileged geeky techies who never had many friends but got really, really rich. Their contempt for non techies who can't make a buck is truly staggering. "Learn to code, loser!"
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Aside from Bill Gates . Most of them never wrote any code!
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