Why the powerful may be more likely to cheat
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#3Because, they can?
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#4It’s a power Circle.
Cheat > become more powerful > realize no one cares > cheat more > …
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#5People who cheat in all aspects of life are more likely to become powerful.
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#6I married into a wealthy-ish family, and this was probably my biggest disappointment. In my anecdotal experience, wealthier individuals lack humanity for others, are quite selfish, and lie through their teeth to make things go their way.
Candidly, I was a centrist before marriage, but I've become a strong advocate for socialism (and against late stage capitalism). The skills you need to be affluent (barring exceptions like FAANG founders) are skills no one should really cultivate.
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#7Note: here, "cheat" is meant in a romantic context, like adultery.
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#8Cheaters aka hackers
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#9How is that news? Its been happening for the last gazillion years. You don't need a research to tell me that. Its like built into our DNA.
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#10How is that news? Its been happening for the last gazillion years. You don't need a research to tell me that. Its like built into our DNA.
It is not useless to research the "obvious", sometimes, the "obvious" can be wrong.
Anyway, the research is about the "why", not a proof that it happens. And their conclusion is that "what determines whether power elicits extradyadic interest is not power perceptions alone but rather the feeling of having a higher mate value than one’s partner". i.e. power => confidence => cheating, not power => cheating directly.