Or accept, and recognize, that things kind of go both ways:

The rich can be exploitative of the poor relative to themselves and heavily motivated by greed;

But it can be equally true that the poor hate the rich with motivations based on greed and envy themselves. Poor people, ironically, can be extremely greedy, more greedy than many wealthy people - they aren’t incompatible.

I’m not taking sides on this one.

I agree that it goes both ways, in the sense that I support UBI. As I think there is a level of wealth that society has an interest in preventing anyone being above, I also think there is a level of poverty that society has an interest in preventing anyone being below.