True.
I worked with people who were multigenerational upper middle class. The type who had a grandmother who’d left them a couple million to be divided amongst the grandkids. Didn’t everyone have such a grandmother? It was difficult for them to believe that EVERYONE couldn’t just pay 10% more for this or that tax to save the environment, feed the homeless, or any other pet cause they happened to take up. They had ‘extra’ in their bank account, didn’t everyone?
They’d never been related to anyone poor, gone to school with anyone poor (private school), gone to church or synagogue with anyone really poor, didn’t live (of course!) in a neighborhood near anyone who was poor. Completely insulated from the poor and their real needs. Answer? Throw money at them and make them go away. Preferably YOUR money. But theirs too, they had plenty of extra if they had to spend it. Nevermind if YOU didn’t have a grandmother who left you nearly a million bucks when she passed on. MY grandmother left me some of her kitchen implements. She was a REALLY good cook. IF she’d HAD big bucks she’d have left me that too. But she didn’t. So obviously I didn’t have the same ‘extra’ money they did. And that blew their minds...