I wonder if only people who come from wealth lack compassion, or do those who come from a poorer background and become wealthy lose their compassion on the way up.
But what we lose, ironically, is exposure to suffering.
While I don’t ever wish for anyone to undergo traumatic, high-stakes, high-pain experiences, those experiences are really the ones that transcend our lives and teach us lessons that could not have been learned otherwise.
On a parallel note... when I was a student, I wondered if instructors remembered what it was like to be a student. At work, I wonder if upper management remember what it was like to be junior staff. At what point up the ladder does that empathy and compassion start wearing off?
I wonder if only people who come from wealth lack compassion, or do those who come from a poorer background and become wealthy lose their compassion on the way up.
While I don’t ever wish for anyone to undergo traumatic, high-stakes, high-pain experiences, those experiences are really the ones that transcend our lives and teach us lessons that could not have been learned otherwise.
On a parallel note... when I was a student, I wondered if instructors remembered what it was like to be a student. At work, I wonder if upper management remember what it was like to be junior staff. At what point up the ladder does that empathy and compassion start wearing off?
Increased wealth correlates to decreased compassion.