[Occupymendocino] Rich People Just Care Less

[Richard Karch]

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/rich-people-just-care-less/?hp&_r=1&


  
Rich People Just Care Less
By DANIEL GOLEMAN

The Great Divide is a series about inequality.
TAGS:

DISCRIMINATION,EMPATHY, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,INCOME INEQUALITY,PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGISTS,REPUBLICAN PARTY
Turning a blind eye. Giving someone the cold shoulder. Looking down on people. Seeing right through them.

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...









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