Too many wealthy Americans suffer from some version of this. If you are born to wealth and grow up in wealth I guess your viewpoint of the universe won’t be a very accurate one. The disproportionate power that wealth grants to you then becomes even more destructive.

What I cannot understand is how so many who suffer or struggle themselves attack fellow victims of this. Punching sideways or down i disgusting but it seems people are always looking for someone to blame and feel better than. This entire experience made me a misanthrope in large. I cannot every discuss my experience without a large number of attacks. It's comforting in a small way to see its not the majority in an international audience, but the American audience and many interactions are very hostile to someone else's pain.

the whole "prosperity" thing in modern US christianity associates with this: that if you're a good christian then god will make you wealthy. So therefore poor people are by definition unworthy, and wealthy people deserve their wealth.

Note that this is in exact opposition to the wealth-heaven-camel-needle teaching in the bible. But that doesn't seem to matter. I'm sure there are interpretations that can make it go away.

for real, in addition, there's interesting research looking at how, punishing and exiling groups of people alters society's relationship with that group.

Stuff like harrassment, arrest, and enforcement actions against a specific group of people isn't the _result_ of prejudice, its frequenty the _cause_ of prejudice due to the just-cause fallacy.