Rich People are Evil

[Yukaphile]

Just depends on how you're raised with wealth. Or if your parents entered into wealth, rather than were born into it. The potential gets higher within a few generations.

[CharlesPhipps]

Just depends on how you're raised with wealth. Or if your parents entered into wealth, rather than were born into it. The potential gets higher within a few generations.

While snobby entitled kids do tend to be the default setting for Old Money, at least from my Country Club days, I tend to note the most vicious sociopaths I've met tended to be 1st or second generation. People who came from nothing (or the middle class) who are the most committed to hating on the poor or milking them for every cent they're worth. These were the guys coming up with for-profit prisons, gentrification of poor neighborhoods, and tearing up businesses to drive up stock prices no matter how many people were laid off.

They had money but not "wealth."

I wouldn't be surprised if they felt the need to prove themselves "better" than the people they left behind. Indeed, I note the majority of Old Money (3 or 4 generations worth) tend not to be evil so much as just outright oblivious. They've had their lives taken care of and have guarantees of success as much as possible so they don't tend to be as nasty--more naively privileged.

This is all anecdotal, I note.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Look at Jeff Bezos. He jokes about how he's sending things into space because he has nothing else to spend money on, while dodging corporate taxes and keeping his employees in such unfit conditions for human life that they have to pee in bottles and the hospitals station ambulences outside the warehouses for the inevitable heat stroke cases.