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Project Willow wrote:Ms. Parker wrote:If you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.Nordic wrote:This is why I stay poor.
(I'm not entirely kidding. I don't want to be one of those people. Really)
Are you sure you've got that right?
Which comes first, the assholery or the money? Seems to me it would be the former which argues against your statement, JR, besides, who made the system anyway.justdrew wrote:is this a followup study (in the OP)? I seem to remember a very similar story coming out a couple years ago.
I think that was about conservatives. So of course it's rich conservatives ruining our world. Ah, what an enjoyable confirmation bias.
Project Willow wrote:Which comes first, the assholery or the money?
Study 7. To further understand why upper-class individuals act
more unethically, study 7 examined whether encouraging positive
attitudes toward greed increases the unethical tendencies
of lower-class individuals to match those of their upper-class
counterparts. When the benefits of greed were not mentioned,
we expected that upper-class individuals would display increased
unethical tendencies compared with lower-class individuals, as in
the previous studies. However, when the benefits of greed were
emphasized, we expected lower-class individuals to be as prone
to unethical behavior as upper-class individuals. These findings
would reveal that one reason why lower-class individuals tend to
act more ethically is that they hold relatively unfavorable attitudes
toward greed (and, conversely, that one reason why upperclass
individuals tend to act more unethically is that they hold
relatively favorable attitudes toward greed).
[snip]
Together, the findings we observed in study 7 indicate that
priming the positive features of greed moderates class-based
differences in unethical behavior. Importantly, lower-class individuals
were as unethical as upper-class individuals when instructed
to think of greed’s benefits, suggesting that upper- and
lower-class individuals do not necessarily differ in terms of their
capacity for unethical behavior but rather in terms of their default
tendencies toward it.
Aldebaran wrote:Project Willow wrote:Which comes first, the assholery or the money?
Interestingly enough.... from the original text:Study 7. To further understand why upper-class individuals act
more unethically, study 7 examined whether encouraging positive
attitudes toward greed increases the unethical tendencies
of lower-class individuals to match those of their upper-class
counterparts. When the benefits of greed were not mentioned,
we expected that upper-class individuals would display increased
unethical tendencies compared with lower-class individuals, as in
the previous studies. However, when the benefits of greed were
emphasized, we expected lower-class individuals to be as prone
to unethical behavior as upper-class individuals. These findings
would reveal that one reason why lower-class individuals tend to
act more ethically is that they hold relatively unfavorable attitudes
toward greed (and, conversely, that one reason why upperclass
individuals tend to act more unethically is that they hold
relatively favorable attitudes toward greed).
[snip]
Together, the findings we observed in study 7 indicate that
priming the positive features of greed moderates class-based
differences in unethical behavior. Importantly, lower-class individuals
were as unethical as upper-class individuals when instructed
to think of greed’s benefits, suggesting that upper- and
lower-class individuals do not necessarily differ in terms of their
capacity for unethical behavior but rather in terms of their default
tendencies toward it.
Good thing our economy isn't largely predicated on conditioning the population towards greed.
After I posted this on facebook, I noticed a lot of my working class friends either making fun, or uneasily, cautiously putting their feelings to paper. It was then that I realized that a lot of them likely did not want to be seen as "jealous" or "envious," which are two despicable traits in a lot of the places they're from.
It was as if they were saying, "you know what? This can be true sometimes. Here's some anecdotal evidence from my experiences," as if they had never heard of the concept of the corruption of power because of their lifetime of baller dreams.
Simulist wrote:There are people so poor that the only thing they have is money.
He also pointed to high rates of violent crime in the poorest neighborhoods in the country that counteract the study’s findings.
“I feel stuck,” Schiff said. “The New York that I wanted to have is still just beyond my reach.”
"I don’t have a dishwasher. We do all our dishes by hand.”
Phil wrote:Am I rich or poor? (Materially) Depends who we're comparing to? I guess most of us are "not like" the poorest there are. What's the OP saying?
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