<i>&#x27;You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.&#x27;</i> - Tony Robbins<p>I&#x27;m center&#x2F;right wing also but coming from a poor neighborhood I know that things are not so clear as you say. It takes an _huge_ effort to get out from that way of life specially when you are younger. I was lucky to have a family that value learning but I know that it was a minority there. Most school friends at the time didn&#x27;t have ANY books at home and their parents didn&#x27;t care about that.<p>Yes, some people are lazy. Yes, most people are proud ignorants. But the surrounding culture took them there. Among rich families there are lazy people also but their &#x27;infrastructure&#x27; simplifies a lot their life. e.g. Rich people can afford to hire people to help them with chores so they have more time for themselves. Poor people can&#x27;t so their chores start to accumulate and everything around them seems sloppy.. to complicate the situation they are used to it once most people around them do the same.