The development of class structures created the environment in which pride could take hold. Alma's community "s[at] their hearts upon riches" and "began to be scornful one towards another" (Alma 4:7). Alma saw "great inequality among the people," as the wealthy "turn[ed] their backs upon the needy and the naked" while "great lamentations among the people" rang through the air (Alma 4:12). It was the wealthy Zoramites chasing the poor out of the synagogues  not the reverse. One Nephite prophet chastised his people since they "rob the poor because of their fine clothing; and they persecute the meek and the poor in heart" (2 Nephi 28:13).