[anon291]

One thing I noticed about marxists is that they themselves have a hierarchy surrounding the rich and poor which they imagine exists in everyone else.

In reality, hardly anyone thinks a poor man is 'spiritually bankrupt'. The main religion of the Western world says the poor man is in fact inherently better.

[Atlas667]

IDK, man, I hear Christians talk about people being misguided (spiritually) all the time. In fact I think they're the ones who say it the most.

But I actually meant it as a sort of drive (spirit), not wholly about belief (spiritual).

But also, you must take into consideration all the ill effects of poverty. Such as crime, lack of education, lack of opportunities, the emotional faults of poverty, unchecked mental health problems, anger, frustration, ills with socialization, etc. All of the effects derived from poverty. All of these get bunched up into a single shallow view of the poor: "they're just like that" - kinda tone.

While the rich get the material wealth and the status-privilege of their families, the rich are assumed to be valuable.

This is literally what the article is talking about, albeit within a more aristocratic context.

[rimbo789]

Read any thread in HN about the unhoused and it is very clear many many people think the poor deserve their condition and are lesser for being so.

[astrange]

Unfortunately one thing being homeless can do to you (or being a drug addict can do to you) is give you permanent brain injuries, at which point you are stuck that way.

So there's circularity.