<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/rich-people-just-care-less/?hp&_r=1&">http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/rich-people-just-care-less/?hp&_r=1&</a><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; "><header class="postHeader" style="display: block; "><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.083em; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-hinted-1, nyt-cheltenham-hinted-2, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-weight: normal; ">Rich People Just Care Less</h1><address class="byline author vcard" style="font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; ">By <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/daniel-goleman/" class="url fn" title="See all posts by DANIEL GOLEMAN" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 91); text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; ">DANIEL GOLEMAN</a></address></header><div class="entry-content" style="margin-top: 12px; "><div class="inlineModule" style="width: 151px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; clear: left; float: left; display: block; "><div class="entry categoryDescriptionModule" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: none; padding-top: 9px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); "><div class="thumb" style="width: 50px; margin-bottom: 0px; clear: left; float: left; margin-left: 0px; height: 50px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 0px; "><img alt="The Great Divide" width="45" height="45" id="1f957035-8ff1-4884-bebe-44dd3eeec669" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:0BAFA6B3-6D30-46DF-90F1-90D168F4FAAB"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.4166em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic; "><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/the-great-divide/" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 91); text-decoration: none; ">The Great Divide</a> is a series about inequality.</div></div><div class="entry entryTagsModule" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: none; padding-top: 9px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); "><h4 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.1429em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; clear: both; ">TAGS:</h4><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4166em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-transform: uppercase; "><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/discrimination/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 91); text-decoration: none; ">DISCRIMINATION</a>,<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/empathy/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 91); text-decoration: none; ">EMPATHY</a>, <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/house-of-representatives/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 91); text-decoration: none; ">HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</a>,<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/income-inequality/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 91); text-decoration: none; ">INCOME INEQUALITY</a>,<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/psychology-and-psychologists/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 91); text-decoration: none; ">PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGISTS</a>,<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/republican-party/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 91); text-decoration: none; ">REPUBLICAN PARTY</a></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.4166em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); 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Giving someone the cold shoulder. Looking down on people. Seeing right through them.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">These metaphors for condescending or dismissive behavior are more than just descriptive. They suggest, to a surprisingly accurate extent, the social distance between those with greater power and those with less — a distance that goes beyond the realm of interpersonal interactions and may exacerbate the soaring inequality in the United States...</p><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></span><div>
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