You Can Tell a Rich Person Wrote This Quote

He was coming to see that being rich and working simply to get richer could be in many ways a soul-destroying business. Particularly if the work you were doing had long since become routine. But being poor and working to survive, working to keep your wife and children from sinking into an abyss of poverty, that was a thrill.
--Ben Elton, Meltdown

My Comment:

Okay, that quote probably makes sense in terms of the fictional character who thought it -- a formerly rich man who is now struggling to get by -- but it does not make much sense to anyone who has actually known any poor people. After all, the poor often engage in soul-destroying and routine work, and they rarely describe the struggle for survival as being all that thrilling.

I would like to think Mr. Elton's heart is in the right spot. I'm just not so sure about his head.