re: #41 wheat-dogghazi

I think many of them are stuck in a juvenile concrete thinking mode, and have limited abstract thinking skills. In other words, they can’t relate to something unless they experience it personally.

It would make for an interesting reality show to take a handful of these heartless top-percenters, take away their wallets and bankcards, and drop them somewhere to fend for themselves for a few days. They might sing a different tune after doing day labor just to buy themselves a room to sleep in for the night.

Sometimes not even then, if it’s second-hand via a friend or relation — when you say “personally” above, for some it literally means the person themselves have to be going through it, whereas others can catch the clue if family or friends experience something.