An excellent article. Unfortunately, we humans are useless at thinking. Poor people aren't interested in what made them poor; they want to alleviate their feelings of inferiority by being unpleasant to those even worse off then themselves. This is standard animal behavior and is seen in every group species. So poor uneducated white people in the US south love slavery because it enables them to feel better about the very condition in which slavery helped place them. Irrational, stupid, but deeply and ineradicably human.