Along the way, we have been taught to associate character skills like honesty, rationality, agreeableness, grit and care with surface metrics like wealth or power.
That’s almost certainly incorrect. And if we make assumptions based on vague measures of class, we’re going to get tricked.
In any village, cabal or cadre, you’ll probably see a similar percentage of bad actors. If anything, the fancy people might overindex for selfishness.
Shoplifting is not that different from cheating on your taxes.