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watch this video and see if you observe a connection between wealth and unseemly behavior
those who were actually well off and made to feel less wealthy demonstrated more empathetic behavior
is this in any way responsible for our current state of the union where we have the best government money can buy, where the wealthy, like those in the study, do not attribute their good fortune to their financial fortune but to their personal merit?
People whose lives revolve around the exclusive pursuit of money are usually sociopathic human beings, IME, so it's not surprising that the OP article mentions abuse.
It's funny because money has no inherent value, aside from the faith-based value that humans attach to it. Rather than investing their lives in real, tangible things and proper human relations, these psychos go for the dollars.
watch this video and see if you observe a connection between wealth and unseemly behavior
those who were actually well off and made to feel less wealthy demonstrated more empathetic behavior
is this in any way responsible for our current state of the union where we have the best government money can buy, where the wealthy, like those in the study, do not attribute their good fortune to their financial fortune but to their personal merit?
watch this video and see if you observe a connection between wealth and unseemly behavior
those who were actually well off and made to feel less wealthy demonstrated more empathetic behavior
is this in any way responsible for our current state of the union where we have the best government money can buy, where the wealthy, like those in the study, do not attribute their good fortune to their financial fortune but to their personal merit?
What I found most interesting is that when regular people felt wealthy, even for just the period of a board game, they started to display these sociopathic tendencies. So is is that many wealthy people become wealthy because they are sociopaths, or is it that becoming wealthy increases sociopathic behavior? I dunno.
It's not about wealth, it's about status. It's a scientific fact that when humans gain more status they produce more testosterone, whether they are male or female. Testosterone makes people more ambitious, aggressive, brutish, and more likely to abuse and take advantage of others.
But that in of itself is not an excuse. People who have done the necessary inner work can rise to power and not have it affect their compassion for others. Unfortunately, most people have not done this inner work, so when they are given power they lose control.
Aren't there plenty of examples counter to this like bill gates ?
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