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I appreciate your thoughtful contribution, but I don't think the point of the text is that everyone should hate rich people or anything like that. The real problem is a system which encourages disgusting inequities and the languishing of human potential rather than the specific beneficiaries of said system. The point is to get people thinking by exposing them to a point of view that they may never have considered. And although it's possible that no single rich person thinks the way this text was written, it's impossible to deny the existence of social stratification and the injustices that result from it.
All that said, although the wealthy may not actually be intentionally malicious towards the poor, they are still not absolved of moral responsibility for their actions by saying that simply "anyone would do the same" or that they're just "playing the game" and "didn't write the rules". The unfortunate fact is that in a world with finite resources we really can't satisfy unlimited desire to posses material goods, and at a certain point the more one possesses the less is available for those in need.