A rich person would read that quote and summarize it as "rich people are good". So really GP is just outing his or herself as not rich.
Having different values from "you and me" doesn't make people evil.
For most of history, it (mostly erroneously) did. In 2019, this also applies. It's just applied much faster over global distances through the Internet.
Personally I think both extremes are terrible, but leaning on the side of cynicism seems safer.
"soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful"
In other words, how they are different from others. Not that they are fundamentally soft, cynicalm or bad.