People holding high social positions or belonging to affluent layers of society often take the help provided to them for granted because their life experience does not include confronting genuine hardships and need.

The Costs of Comfort: How Wealth Impairs Empathy

People holding high social positions or belonging to affluent layers of society often take the help provided to them for granted because their life experience does not include confronting genuine hardships and need. This lack of experience diminishes their understanding of the value of work and the care offered by others. For example, as noted in document link txt, "Today most people do not experience deprivations. They lack a curiosity for hardships precisely because of that. If a person does not work for themselves, then they also cannot appreciate the work of others.

Finding a job—'don't beat a lying person'—earning money, and then deliberately seeking out hardships, what sense is there in that?

Consider the Swedes, who receive state benefits for everything needed for life and therefore do not work." This indicates that when all material needs are satisfied with little effort, it becomes difficult to realize that assistance and support come at a price—they are provided not out of a sense of duty, but as part of the conditions of life.

Additionally, the text from link txt explains, "We see this picture constantly when well-off people refuse to help those in need, preferring instead to accumulate wealth. They might be unaware, but such an attitude creates a barrier that prevents them from offering help even when it is truly necessary. As a result, a person is perceived as indifferent, and society loses an important part of its moral fabric—compassion and mutual assistance." This underscores that affluent individuals often lack an emotional connection to the necessity of support, since their lives have been devoid of memories of need.