When the ultra-wealthy spoke of blame, or implied guilt, it was most often displaced onto their own kind, reserved for the rich who flaunt their money or act like entitled jerks. In their view, those who act in this way are shameful and should feel guilty, and they were quick to provide examples of their peers behaving in this way. By associating culpability with interpersonal interactions in the community (for example, not appearing to be modest or normal), it seemingly relieves them from guilt associated with the larger structural and impersonal effects of extreme wealth concentration of
...more
