In Persian a wealthy person with no hardships who is unfeeling and cruel to the poor is known as a:
مرفه بیدرد – someone who is featherbedded and can't ever understand the unprivileged's feeling and pain.
Is there a similar word in English which denotes a filthy rich class who shows no sympathy toward the poor?
Example:
In a stagflation or economic crisis ______ never understand how the middle class feel when they're trying not to slide down to the line of poverty, and just they're just trying to make ends meet.
Best Answer
A recent coinage for that (circa 2011) in the US is "the one percent" or "the 1%".
See this wikipedia article about the Occupy movement and its slogan "We are the 99%".