No, society has been told" pull yourselves up by your bootstraps." So long that we've been conditioned to blame the person needing help.

This assumes that the rich aren't sociopaths. I think your garden variety lower upper class person would be more compassionate, but that your garden variety billionaire wouldn't gain much, if any, empathy.

Unhelpful, divisive, and hateful. You can’t lift up the poor by attacking the rich or middle class. Help the poor with love not war! C’mon Marianne. Read The Course In Miracles!

Oh, they see. And they don't give a flying fuck. Their corporeal godliness is contingent upon our suffering. It's the only way they have it.

TBH empathy from rich would not happen the other half of your comment stands though. The rich know damn well how the poor lives that is why they send cops to clear the annoying camps from their view.

That's the stupidest thing I've heard on the internet today! The rich are totally aware of what's going on. The poor are also totally aware of what's going on. There's plenty of rage.

The rich are not capable of compassion. They are rich for a reason. Ruthlessness is at the top of the chart.

Or they would simply want to build taller walls separating themselves from the unwashed masses whose toil they live off of.

Nonsense. The rich don't give a solitary fuck about anyone but themselves. As for the poor seeing how the rich live; there's a whole subset of television dedicated to that kind of shit. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? MTV Cribs? Basically every "reality TV" show? Jeezus.

Even if some of the rich saw they wouldn't care. The poor are less than human to them. The poor are poor because they are inferior.