In 2015, Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno used taxpayer dollars to shut down local roads so he could take a joy ride in an Aston Martin car that he purchased for $2.3 million.
Why are you getting down voted? Its true. I have never worked with or for someone who is even moderately wealthy that isn’t an asshole. Its like a requirement to be rich.
Being an asshole is a consequence of being rich. Having social power in the form of wealth, status or fame causes neurological changes that reduce your brain’s capacity for empathy, giving you a brain that looks more like someone born with psychopathy. Power corrupts on a brain-chemistry level.
Why are you getting down voted?
I don’t see any downvotes, but i’d guess it’s because people presume bad faith on the internet - not without some reason - and are interpretting my comment as a rude attack on the previous poster rather than an expansion of the same sentiment.
Edit: Well to be honest, not exactly the same sentiment - I think accusing only the ‘baddies’ of this ‘we own the world’ attitude requires forgetting or forgiving a lot of western history.
My own is sitting at 60%. The oerson I resoonded to was at 80 when I first commented. Guess some rich people don’t like the question. Thank you for your response. I think I’ll look for some papers that give evidence to that position. I know the citizens of the west do have some responsibility. We were clearly supposed to take action before it got to this point. But a lot of us reaching into adulthood today were born in this world. It was like this when we got here.
I personally see no benefits of inequality in our society, but it seems anyone with power is intent on keeping it this way.
There’s a piece from stanford and harvard business review (of all places). I couldn’t find the original studies on academia.edu after a couple minutes of searching but maybe you’ll have better luck. I think there’s a behind the bastards podcast episode about it too.
Why are you getting down voted? Its true. I have never worked with or for someone who is even moderately wealthy that isn’t an asshole. Its like a requirement to be rich.
Being an asshole is a consequence of being rich. Having social power in the form of wealth, status or fame causes neurological changes that reduce your brain’s capacity for empathy, giving you a brain that looks more like someone born with psychopathy. Power corrupts on a brain-chemistry level.
I don’t see any downvotes, but i’d guess it’s because people presume bad faith on the internet - not without some reason - and are interpretting my comment as a rude attack on the previous poster rather than an expansion of the same sentiment.
Edit: Well to be honest, not exactly the same sentiment - I think accusing only the ‘baddies’ of this ‘we own the world’ attitude requires forgetting or forgiving a lot of western history.
My own is sitting at 60%. The oerson I resoonded to was at 80 when I first commented. Guess some rich people don’t like the question. Thank you for your response. I think I’ll look for some papers that give evidence to that position. I know the citizens of the west do have some responsibility. We were clearly supposed to take action before it got to this point. But a lot of us reaching into adulthood today were born in this world. It was like this when we got here.
I personally see no benefits of inequality in our society, but it seems anyone with power is intent on keeping it this way.
https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/how-power-erodes-empathy-and-steps-we-can-take-rebuild-it
https://hbr.org/2015/04/becoming-powerful-makes-you-less-empathetic
There’s a piece from stanford and harvard business review (of all places). I couldn’t find the original studies on academia.edu after a couple minutes of searching but maybe you’ll have better luck. I think there’s a behind the bastards podcast episode about it too.