I’m sorry, but you have entirely misconstrued what I meant to say. My point is solely that the words “working class” in this context were used as shorthand for “worthy,” but it seems unlikely that they genuinely apply to very many of the two hundred in the original article. I don’t believe that poverty is the fault of the poor. I do believe, though, that some rich people choose to be poor, and some even just pretend to be poor, and that the artistic community contains a larger proportion of both those types of people than average.
