The Wealthy- Less empathy, more selfish

[EL PRESIDENTE]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44084236/ns/health-behavior/

Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Keltner says the rich really are different, and not in a good way: Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and generally more selfish.

“Lower class people just show more empathy, more prosocial behavior, more compassion, no matter how you look at it.”

that sounds about right.

 

[BrianFromWA]

so you're saying that behavior is learned based on experience? The rich weren't just born selfish?

 

[blazerboy30]

so you're saying that behavior is learned based on experience? The rich weren't just born selfish?

The selfish were born rich. Durrrrrr.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I think having or not having money can easily effect one's outlook on life and personality- but only in general terms.

 

[MARIS61]

In other words, rich people are more likely to think about themselves. “They think that economic success and political outcomes, and personal outcomes, have to do with individual behavior, a good work ethic,” said Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Because the rich gloss over the ways family connections, money and education helped, they come to denigrate the role of government and vigorously oppose taxes to fund it.



There is one interesting piece of evidence showing that many rich people may not be selfish as much as willfully clueless, and therefore unable to make the cognitive link between need and resources. Last year, research at Duke and Harvard universities showed that regardless of political affiliation or income, Americans tended to think wealth distribution ought to be more equal.

The problem? Rich people wrongly believed it already was.


This mirrors my many experiences with the uber-wealthy throughout my life. Even the ones I liked had little concern for others who were less fortunate. It arose out of arrogance for many, but also out of ignorance as most rich people have very little actual life experience of any kind, They are so completely sheltered from birth to death they might as well live in a bubble.

The end result is they are pretty boring to have as friends and even more useless to debate current events with.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

what kind of douche debates current events with their friends?

 

[MARIS61]

what kind of douche debates current events with their friends?

Those who are up to the challenge, intellectually speaking.

Most of my friends enjoy it. What do your friends talk about, their most recent hangover or their high score on a video game?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

WE DISCUSS LIFE, SON. LIVING, NOT PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON THAT DON'T AFFECT OUR DAY TO DAY LIFE.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

so do you sit around a fire talking about the tea party and how bush fucked your shit up?

 

[MARIS61]

WE DISCUSS LIFE, SON. LIVING, NOT PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON THAT DON'T AFFECT OUR DAY TO DAY LIFE.

Who mentioned anything about Washington?

Very little ever happens there, and none of it is current.

Life = Current events

 

[MARIS61]

so do you sit around a fire talking about the tea party and how bush fucked your shit up?

No, since neither of those has-beens are current nor do they hold any relevance any longer.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

No, since neither of those has-beens are current nor do they hold any relevance any longer.

Yeah right

X

 

[blazerboy30]

No, since neither of those has-beens are current nor do they hold any relevance any longer.

If you're going to to play the village idiot, at least be consistent about it...

Wanted to get this in before the Republican/Tea Party stops our progress

Well, he did inherit from Bush the biggest ever financial fuck-up this country has ever known,

I had been under the impression it started a couple years before that, while Bush was in charge.

etc, etc.

 

[MARIS61]

If you're going to to play the village idiot, at least be consistent about it...







etc, etc.

Amusing that you took the time to look up my posts.

However, they are replies to posts about old, worn-out topics that the right-wing can't seem to let go of. Certainly not current events, which is what we're talking about now.

You must be wealthy.

 

[blazerboy30]

Amusing that you took the time to look up my posts.

Yeah, it did take all of 15 seconds.

However, they are replies to posts about old, worn-out topics that the right-wing can't seem to let go of. Certainly not current events, which is what we're talking about now.

Yes, 3 months ago is an eternity. You've totally moved on from blaming and talking about Bush.

You must be wealthy.

Calling out ridiculousness and inconsistency has nothing to do with class.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

lots of poor people are jerks too, its just that nobody cares