Walking a mile in their shoes does not change views towards redistributive policies

Hmm.  From Empathy, deservingness, and preferences for welfare assistance: A large-scale online perspective-taking experiment by Alexander Bor and Gábor Simonovits.  From the Abstract.

Online perspective-taking experiments have demonstrated great potential in reducing prejudice towards disadvantaged groups such as refugees or Roma. These experiments trigger the psychological process of empathy and evoke feelings of compassion. Meanwhile, a growing literature argues that compassion towards the poor is an important predictor of support for social welfare. This paper bridges these two literatures and predicts that perspective-taking with the poor could increase support for welfare assistance. This hypothesis is tested in a pre-registered experiment conducted on a large and diverse online sample of US citizens (N = 3,431). Our results suggest that participants engaged with the perspective-taking exercise, wrote essays expressing strong emotions, but perspective-taking had no meaningful causal effect on general attitudes towards social welfare. We can confidently rule out effects exceeding 2 points on a 100-point scale. These results indicate that perspective-taking with a poor, deserving individual does not necessarily reduce stereotypes about the poor in general; nor does it change views towards redistributive policies.

I would have also argued that putting oneself into the perspective of another would have increased sympathy for them and therefore also increased willingness to consider social welfare programs.  But apparently not.  Subject to confirmation.