Just how often do people who are working poor make dinner reservations, do you think?
I don’t understand the relevance of this rhetoric.
Are you saying that if a person isn’t the working poor, their experiences don’t matter? Does anyone’s experience matter, if there’s someone else out there who’s poorer and doesn’t have that experience?
If someone malicious lays spikes in the road and your tires are flattened while you’re trying to get to work, is it a-ok? After all, some people don’t even have cars. So why should anyone care what happened to you? (Oh, that’s too elitist, because you don’t have a car? Okay, maybe it happens to a bus you’re on. But who cares: some people can’t even afford bus fare!)
There is no inherent nobility in poverty nor shame in wealth (or vice versa), and no act of unprovoked assholishness is automatically absolved because you think the target isn’t suffering enough. Shitty deeds are shitty, full stop, no matter whom they affect.
