Why Poor People Are Generous and Rich People Are Stingy

PomeroySays
4 min readMar 13, 2022
Source Canva

I have noticed working-class people are much more generous than rich people.

One side of my family is working-class, like me. The other side has money. I have seen both sides of the coin.

WORKING-CLASS ARE GENEROUS:

If someone is looking for community, the working class are more likely to band together to help each other. My cousin-in-law knows a lot of people. Both she and her husband work full-time but it doesn’t cover all the bills.

So she will trade her baked goods for plumbing work. Or her friend will help repair roofing shingles for free. My mother-in-law knows a lot of people in her small town and they will help bring her groceries or mow the grass.

In the past, she loaned us money for a much-needed basement drain system, after our basement flooded. We paid her back in a month.

My brother-in-law gives rides to friends who don’t have a car. My uncle-in-law will fix someone’s car for free and not even charge labor.

I could go on and on about how the working class is more generous than the rich. The Working-class is more…

--

--

PomeroySays
PomeroySays

Written by PomeroySays

New England born- now living in the Midwest. Blogger, author, influencer, and history addict. Say hi on KoFi- https://ko-fi.com/pomeroysays/

Responses (23)