Short answer: Being ultra-wealthy requires a pretty significant level of narcissism.
Longer answer: One way to cope with ultra-wealthy while those around you suffer is to blame others for the problem which shields yourself from introspection and critical evaluation of your own actions (or inaction).
As long as you can blame 'poor' people on "evil Republicans" (or whatever boogeyman you chose), you are insulated from asking the question "Gee, I wonder if I'm part of the problem?"
Being liberal is easy - you get to have righteous anger without having any real depth of thought and being uncomfortable with stepping on the necks of the poor people around you.
And - you can expend this beyond 'poor'. Black, brown, poor ... anyone different. You can equally put BLM on your twitter feed and be happy you don't live around black people at the same time.
Poor kids are just as smart as white kids.
Longer answer: One way to cope with ultra-wealthy while those around you suffer is to blame others for the problem which shields yourself from introspection and critical evaluation of your own actions (or inaction).
No need to cope, that's a point of pride that reminds you you've done better than most. There is no guilt in success, the main thing to remember is that everyone else would do far worse to you if given the opportunity.
There's something I find repulsive in that train of thought
that's a point of pride that reminds you you've done better than most.
Yeah it's "the others", the part that I find repulsive
That's like, retards olympics, and your pride is to be the better retard.. Others, as unit of measurement to evaluate one's self... No thanks...
Also a possibility is they just pretend to be liberal, have secret based views, and they really think that being rich means not just making money but taking it from others, to increase the wealth gap and inequality. They take money from regular folks thru taxes, inflation, crime that blacks cause.
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