Remember, there are people you will meet who have never gotten $40 ahead. While you will say that isn’t your fault, I’ll also say it isn’t theirs either.
The world of interaction is never defined by one action. This doesn’t mean you are safe on a street you don’t take responsibility for.

what you didn’t do, will also bite you in your ass

This study comes in a series in which Piff tries to iso­late the ways that wealth­ier peo­ple dif­fer socially.  Last year, Piff pub­lished a paper show­ing that wealthy indi­vid­u­als are more likely to exhibit a num­ber of uneth­i­cal behav­iors.   As Piff told New York Mag­a­zine last year, “While hav­ing money doesn’t nec­es­sar­ily make any­body any­thing,” Piff says, “the rich are way more likely to pri­or­i­tize their own self-interests above the inter­ests of other peo­ple.  It makes them more likely to exhibit char­ac­ter­is­tics that we would stereo­typ­i­cally asso­ciate with, say, assholes.”

via Wealthy Entitlement, No Longer a Myth.