{"id":3769,"date":"2025-11-27T18:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:04:24","slug":"when-being-rich-feels-wrong-inside-the-world-of-millionaires-battling-wealth-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/11\/27\/when-being-rich-feels-wrong-inside-the-world-of-millionaires-battling-wealth-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"When Being Rich Feels Wrong: Inside the World of Millionaires Battling &#8216;Wealth Shame&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the United Kingdom&#8217;s wealth gap widens, with the richest families now holding more wealth than the poorest half of the population, a new phenomenon termed &#8220;wealth shame&#8221; is emerging among millionaires. This feeling of guilt stems from inheriting or generating passive income amid such stark societal inequality, prompting some to feel like &#8220;class traitors&#8221; or lobbyists for a fairer system. The psychological discomfort reflects the brutality of the widening divide, which a recent report suggests could act as a significant driver of societal collapse. This guilt can, however, be channeled into active atonement, driving wealthy individuals to fund causes that aim to address the injustices they perceive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>November 25, 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/wealth-shame-guilt-money-rich-b2869989.html\">independent.co<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the United Kingdom&#8217;s wealth gap widens, with the richest families now holding more wealth than the poorest half of the population, a new phenomenon termed &#8220;wealth shame&#8221; is emerging among millionaires. This feeling of guilt stems from inheriting or generating passive income amid such stark societal inequality, prompting some to feel like &#8220;class traitors&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":3771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}