re: #89 windsagio

Reminds me of someone talking on here a few weeks back about how the slave society in the south led to that kind of thinking, and a general disdain for the lower classes/poor.

There’s also a quasi-religious component to it, by which I mean lingering vestiges of Calvinism, Puritanism, etc. The idea that the poor are deservedly poor, the rich are rewarded by God.
You can see it even now with stuff like the prosperity gospel imo.