Implied Bias - Economic Discrimination

I don't think anyone deliberately discriminates because of wealth, which is why I think it will be the hardest kind of discrimination to tackle.

I think what we've actually done is set up a social system that has an invisible "implied bias". I think when people discriminate against the poor they find other reasons to demonise them. Reasons that sound quite legitimate unless you did a full life audit to realise the criticisms aren't based in fact.

I think it is self-policing. It's not enough to push the person out of your own life, you have to make sure others do to. It gets up people's nose just to see someone helping those on the out. So they use a host of colloquialisms like 'you can't help those who refuse to help themselves' to convince the more compassionate among them that it's not worth the trouble or worse - that it reinforces the behavior.

We apply these ostracising social mechanisms to some not others, and it's those we identify with most that make the cut. Those with a similar socio-economic status. I don't think people do it deliberately.

It's an implied bias.