Can a ”Silver Spoon” person have struggled enough literally to empathize with the struggle of the poor to be truly thankful?

This time of year (the holiday season) people start to speak of how thankful they are. They expect that everyone should be thankful, or at least acknowledge how hard it is for those living on the periphery. If you never suffered, your family was wealthy to the point you never lacked, vacationed on mega yachts, never seen the inside of a Motel 6, always stayed at the Four Seasons or some 5 star hotel when traveling as well as flying in a private jet. Can such a person really understand the struggle of John Q, much less those on the fringe or those who fell into the cracks? How can they really be thankful when they never had to wait on, struggle for, or were always able to indulge any whim?