“Occupy Wall Street had some important things to say about the gap between rich and poor but it was negative about the 1%,” said Jamie Traeger-Muney, a wealth psychologist. The media, she said, makes the rich “feel like they need to hide or feel ashamed”. “Sometimes, I am shocked by things that people say. You would never talk about another group of people in the way that it seems perfectly normal to talk about wealthy people.”
How does the media affect rich people, according to Traeger-Muney?
It makes them feel like they should be ashamed about their wealth It makes them hide their shame about being rich It makes them develop negative feelings towards movements like Occupy Wall Street It makes them want to give some of their money to others