Yes, this whole idea of the whiney poor is really offensive. Some of The rich have whined their way to the current fiat banking system where money is made not through labor. The rich whined their way to the GlassSpeagal act retraction which led to 2008. Certainly there are lazy poor people, but in general when poor people whine it is about basic life matters. The rich whine about things most of us would never whine about. And their whining is exceptionally effective given the kinds of players they can pay to whine for them. They can whine their way to a war over bs ideas becuase it helps them with the companies and markets. And they do whine their way to these things. Right now the neo-cons are whining, I guarantee it, daily to Trump to get the next war that poor people will die in over markets and company profits. If Hilary had been in there would have been a much larger war already in either Syria or Iran, because she’s down with the neocon plan. Trump, who I don’t like, is more isolationist, hence the friction with the neocons. I don’t doubt that if he gets one more term they will manipulate him into another war on bs grounds. (if this is taken as me liking Iran, please go back to kindergarten, you shouldn’t have dropped out)
I think that Fixed Cross is right, in the sense that they are not a cultural group, they have no identity. There is a faction, however, within the larger group of the rich that does have a culture and that culture is coming more out into the open even for fairly blind people: via the whole Epstein thing, for example.
I find most people problematic at best. Rich people have less excuses and more ability to make their weaknesses and plastic natures affect others. So, they tend to annoy me much more than other people. It’s a bit like small children shouldn’t be given flamethrowers to play with. Well, most homosapiens should not ahve much wealth.
Oh, and no, that doesn’t mean I like communism. There is noticing obvious problems that Communists may also notice and there are the various solutions to the problems. One can have vastly different opinions on the latter.