Discredited

Parable about low living:

If they discredit someone of low means they discredit themselves.

Explanation:

If people of high means go about the expense of discrediting someone of a lowly life then they spend monies they cannot justify therefore bringing into question the trust that the public previously found in them without which they would not be living the high means they currently live.

In other words if they purposely seek to destroy a bum they destroy themselves. For who would invest money into some one or group who so foolishly spends money.