Are rich people meaner? Two teams find errors in each other’s work
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Are rich people meaner? Two teams find errors in each other’s work
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#2Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil. A lot of the time, their interests directly conflict with the interests of the middle class.
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#3Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil. A lot of the time, their interests directly conflict with the interests of the middle class.
You probably have a significant selection effect in play there. You would not notice the rich people you've encountered who were perfectly polite to you and did not have ostentatious displays of wealth that clearly labeled them as rich.
You may also be surprised to discover that the "rich asshole" who ducks into the spot in front of you with his Ferrari and then tells you off with his vigorously waving arms decorated with a Rolex could be entirely faking it, actually hip deep in debt and not able to afford what he's waving around. Unsurprisingly such people are often quite stressed. (I don't know "that guy" but I know some people who certainly trend in that direction and I believe would have required only small life pushes to be "that guy".)
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#4Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil. A lot of the time, their interests directly conflict with the interests of the middle class.
And the intentions of the middle-class directly conflict with the intentions of the poor.
Middle-class is definitely the worst. Enough power to be harmful to the poor, but not enough self-awareness of their own situation.
They're the slave-drivers the wealthy use to whip the slaves.
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#5Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil. A lot of the time, their interests directly conflict with the interests of the middle class.
>Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil
I'd keep that attitude in check, if you are in a western nation you are likely in the top 1% - 2% in terms of income globally. Things would end pretty badly for you if 98% of the planet decided people like you are evil.
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#6Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil. A lot of the time, their interests directly conflict with the interests of the middle class.
Is your hypothesis that wealth turns people into assholes, or that only assholes are capable of generating vast amounts of personal wealth?
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#7Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil. A lot of the time, their interests directly conflict with the interests of the middle class.
>Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil I'd keep that attitude in check, if you are in a western nation you are likely in the top 1% - 2% in terms of income globally. Things would end pretty badly for you if 98% of the planet decided people like you are evil.
I upvoted you because it's a good point, but if you're discussing interpersonal behavior, does it really matter if someone living in poverty in the American deep south is in the top 2% globally for PPP? Studies like this are not looking at the world as a whole, they're looking at interpersonal relationships, by definition very local or regional.
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#8Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil. A lot of the time, their interests directly conflict with the interests of the middle class.
>Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil I'd keep that attitude in check, if you are in a western nation you are likely in the top 1% - 2% in terms of income globally. Things would end pretty badly for you if 98% of the planet decided people like you are evil.
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Excusing greedy behavior won’t make it right, ever.
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#9How do you define rich?
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#10Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil. A lot of the time, their interests directly conflict with the interests of the middle class.
And the intentions of the middle-class directly conflict with the intentions of the poor. Middle-class is definitely the worst. Enough power to be harmful to the poor, but not enough self-awareness of their own situation. They're the slave-drivers the wealthy use to whip the slaves.
So the Gestapo was worse than Hitler?
I've recently been talking to my therapost about this. I'm not sure there are many jobs where you can be an "ethical producer" under capitalism. It's a shit system that requires 10-20% (at least in the US) of people to be in poverty.
Even if every single person in the United States was capable of being a physician, we still would require 10-20% to work shitty jobs and live shitty lives. Yay America!