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They usually live from other people's labor.
There are 2 classes of people in the world:
It's rare to find an upper class person who earns living through their own work (usually sports and music)
They don't seem to care about making my life easier
How are you defining these groups of people?
Rich people keep poor people poor. Poor people keep rich people rich.
mostly because they feel they are a superior species to those who have less money than them.
and a lot of that is deeply rooted in racism, sexism, and classism. they are all intertwined to the anxiety people have about financial and social status and the life scramble to 'move up the ladder' for you and your group, and keep other groups from doing so, or even actively push them down.
a person who can afford a 80K car isn't a better person than someone who can only afford at 8K car, but according to the default beliefs of most of the upper classes, they are. They literally believe money and consumption directly proportional to your social worth as a human being. So if you don't earn/spend enough, you are 'less than' those who do more of it.
Is every wealthy person like this? No. But the majority are. The attitude is also present among lower classes, where the working-class feel better than the poor, and the middle-class better than the working-class. And lots of people are debt-spending to seem they are a class above their actual income because they don't want to be seen negatively due to a lack of money by those who have more than them.
It's very hard to see any of this, if you only spend your life in/among one social class. A lot of people, their entire lives, never change classes. It's much easier to see if if you have changed classes or living in community where there is clear class stratification. I'm a working-class person who has been around the entire spectrum of wealth for different periods of my life. I'm familiar with how people from different classes think about other classes and the assumptions they make and how ingrained those assumptions are.
And a lot of people are complete ignorant/incapable of really talking about this type of stuff because the emotional intensity of this 'money = good' 'no money = bad' stuff people have ingrained in their psyches. For example, I was raised that the worst thing you could ever possibly be is unemployed/living off government assistance. Like my father was so proud he didn't even take unemployment when he had no job for 2 years, and made us suffer unnecessarily. it was stupid, but belief makes people do stupid things.
But typically, very crudely put the stereotype is that the poor hate the rich for being rich and looking down on them and hoarding resources for themselves. And the rich hate the poor for being lazy, unwilling to 'improve' themselves' and see them as subhuman animals who squander the resources given to them.
