I can boil it down to a single word: Empathy.
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God you have a point
Honestly IME it's support others. I've found they're more likely to share and donate things than people who can afford to do way more
I said something like this in an earlier thread with a similar question. Someone responded to me that for the rich, everything is transactional. I think there's a lot of truth in that statement, and it's because the rich can afford to act like this. If you're not rich, you will have to depend on others to help you out at some times.
My favorite author agrees and so do I.
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
John Steinbeck
No joke, everything. When you're so rich every failure and mistake you make can have you fall, only to land on a practically infinite pile of money... No one says no to you, you take credit for the work of others. You get a higher education, but only get a degree after a lot of bribes. These things are what make the ultrarich, inhuman. Separation from consequences.
Understand the motivation and situation of other poor people
Fixing vehicles, any kind of manual labor, working for 8 hours at a time, and paying taxes.
The only thing that the rich are "categorically good" at is performing the behaviors that the market encourages, specifically with relation to managing capital and using ownership of capital to exert authority over labor. And the behaviors that the market encourages are near universally corrosive to humanity.
In terms of any actual life skill or proficiency, I'd take an average poor person over a rich person any day.
Not take things for granted. Actually appreciate things for more than their worth
This was basically the answer I came here to say. I immediately thought of all of the stories I've read about people throwing game controllers and punching TVs and it's fine because mommy and daddy will just buy new shit for them. If I did that sort of shit with my second hand Mega Drive then I would've kissed good bye to any childhood gaming.
Same goes for these parents that will smash up their child's computer as punishment or something. Absolute spoilt fucking brats with no appreciation for the things their money buys, raising the next generation of spoilt brats.
As a former pizza delivery driver - tipping. Poor folks would dig through the cushions to make sure I got a handful of quarters for a tip, usually coming out to $2-3 (back in 2006) whereas rich people would round up the receipt to the nearest dollar or two, almost never more.
Spend money
If you're saying like more efficiently I agree with you.
When poor people have money they tend to spend it. When rich people have money they tend to save it. Poor people tend to be better for the economy than rich people. Trickle down economics hasn’t worked. It’s time to try trickle up economics!