Yesterday, I made a snarky comment about wealth-hoarding (namely, that the people who do it should feel guilty), and virtually every reply I received said something like:
“Why do you feel entitled to other people’s money?”
“Go invent something and quit bitching.”
“You must be a loser.”
Etc.
The baseline assumption seems to be that anyone who cares about poor people must themselves be poor—that every opinion and attitude is motivated solely by self-interest.
Isn’t that sad? I said that billionaires should feel guilty about behaving selfishly, and everyone immediately assumed that I personally wanted or needed “handouts.”
Plot twist: I do not lol.
The baseline assumption is that everyone acts from self-interest. And that fucking sucks.