See there’s this idea that when rich people cheat the system, they are being intelligent and finding proper loopholes, and by showcasing enough diligence and intellect to find these loopholes they are proving why they deserve to be rich in the first place.
Poor people who cheat the system, often so that they can stay alive. They are seen as inhuman and the idea is that if they weren’t cretins they wouldn’t be so poor as to need to cheat to begin with.
Admittedly, this seems to be changing as the gap between the rich and the poor grows wider and wider and wider, with the temporarily embarrassed millionaires now becoming Furious and hungry.
I think you’re very right. But there’s also something that makes one change how they see rich doing “tax optimisation”, that I know because I now see it as something amoral, which I didn’t before.
But also, the difference between poor and middle was bigger thatln middle and rich at some point in time. Now that is the opposite, any one from the middle class is closer to being poor than to being rich, that also may affect opinion shift
See there’s this idea that when rich people cheat the system, they are being intelligent and finding proper loopholes, and by showcasing enough diligence and intellect to find these loopholes they are proving why they deserve to be rich in the first place.
Poor people who cheat the system, often so that they can stay alive. They are seen as inhuman and the idea is that if they weren’t cretins they wouldn’t be so poor as to need to cheat to begin with.
Admittedly, this seems to be changing as the gap between the rich and the poor grows wider and wider and wider, with the temporarily embarrassed millionaires now becoming Furious and hungry.
I think you’re very right. But there’s also something that makes one change how they see rich doing “tax optimisation”, that I know because I now see it as something amoral, which I didn’t before.
But also, the difference between poor and middle was bigger thatln middle and rich at some point in time. Now that is the opposite, any one from the middle class is closer to being poor than to being rich, that also may affect opinion shift
I think your 100% right, and it’s a cognitive bias referred to as the Halo Effect.