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Responding to What the Rich Won’t Tell You - The New York Times First, I can see the resentment in the comments, and certainly, some of it is justified, but it is often overgeneralized so that the affluent are presented or assumed to be all one way of another. It is always more nuanced. Second, empathy matters, although not for everyone. If one has friends of different economic classes, older people on fixed incomes, women who've gone through divorces - women suffer more than men when couples divorce -, or those who've become victim to the changing job landscape, those still thriving feel some pain when realizing the tough times others might be going through. One avoids [mentioning] those things that are likely out of the reach of others. Third, for those that are aware of their [fortune] - the 'luck' of having smarts, a good family, social supports, and who lived in a period of government munificence - doing good is another choice, as is charity, not necessarily to ...

The Economist has an article, The rich are different from you and me , on possible differences between classes in giving. Rather than taking a position, which is the wont of most commenters, a review of all the posts gives a good sense of the readers beliefs. Various suggested reasons: - The rich are rich because they are cheap - The rich lack compassion for the poor because they don't experience poverty. - The rich lack compassion for the poor because the poor are unlike themselves - Neo-conservative values have tilted us toward "Greed is good." - But the rich give more. Bill Gates and Warren buffet redeem us all. - The rich believe people get what they deserve - The rich enjoy their relative societal position - ...even more so the larger the difference - Overreliance on subjects from the developed world skews research.