There was a time when hating the rich was something that brought people together.

I’m not so sure. There has always been a disappointing amount of people that buy into Worthington’s Law. I’ve been experiencing that type all my life but never had a word for it until much later.

What goes along with that is a phenomenon known as “last place aversion”, and it’s been confirmed in experiments where people will give the person with the most money their share, because they don’t want anyone else to jump ahead of them. And that’s even before you bring in the component of race…