People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.
In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.
Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.
Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.