Not really

[Plane]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/10/uk-lottery-study_n_4747832.html

The study confirms a string of other studies showing that right-wing tendencies and a lack of empathy about the poor are correlated with wealth and power. But those studies didn't exactly address the question of whether wealth caused people to change their attitudes about the poor. The lottery-winner study is one of the first to do so. It suggests that money really does change people.

   This author makes the unsupported assumption that adherents of conservatism have less sympathy than adherents of liberalism.

    On the same set of facts one could conclude that persons that have seen both sides of the question often choose to think conservatively, not that sympathy was damaged by good fortune.


  But..

    Lets for the sake of argument accept this thesis, what aims and actions should be informed by this idea?

     Perhaps the poor should be prevented from prosperity, so that they can continue to be right thinking.

[kimba1]

Just a thought (maybe) sudden fortune sometimes makes one worry about keeping the money and as such worrying about the less fortunate gets a lower priority.

[kimba1]

Conservatives  does have the belief in the phrase give a man a fish he'll eat for a day but leave him in the woods with nothing he'll figure out where the lake is and get the fish himself .

[Xavier_Onassis]

Build a man a fire and he will be warm until the fire burns out.

Set a man on fire and he will be warm of the rest of his life.