no one wants to be disgusting

from accessmylibrary:
The social greed of the miser is more abstract, and so is the disgust that the miser excites. People who accumulate wealth but live frugal lives are rarely considered greedy. They are not disgusting people because they work hard and generate a surplus; they do not take more than their fair share. Misers, on the other hand, accumulate wealth by fair means or foul and, because of their pathological obsession with money for its own sake, will not share or show mercy; they are indifferent to the needs of others. Misers, unlike gluttons, do not make us think of saliva, vomit, and other bodily fluids, but they disgust us because misers, like gluttons, consume too much of the social surplus, leaving others with too little.