From there the “virtuous” poor are taught to internalize and value that virtue. They grow to hate the rich not for their theft of resources, time, and security, but for their vices, for their refusal to work harder than the poor should be asked to work, for their possessing the freedoms rather than denying the same to the poor. And thus eventually the vanities are burnt, puritainism takes root, and a fetishization of misery becomes the hyperreal symbol for morality and virtue, ultimately replacing them.

I will not hate the rich for any joy they take in life except where it harms those who can’t walk away. I will hate them for their theft from us and attempt to control us and for their hypocrisy to those of us who labor and our friends, family, and neighbors who cannot.