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  • To add to this, there’s been evidence that as an individual accrues more wealth, their empathy response lessens over time.

    My arm chair psychologist hypothesis is that: as the individual sees their quality of life increase, they look at other human beings in deplorable conditions, and their empathy response atrophies in order to avoid cognitive dissonance.

    There’s a concept in the study of wealthy individuals which goes over their desire to hide impoverishment from their view.