Because they think they know better than us hoi polloi. Seriously. There’s a psych term that escapes me, but once a person gains wealth and power, they think they know better than the rest of us and the rules don’t apply to them.
One of the most horrifying things I know about humans is that almost all of us are susceptible to this and it’s not simply a matter of people kissing their ass, though that certainly “helps”.
One of the most horrifying things I know about humans is that almost all of us are susceptible to this and it’s not simply a matter of people kissing their ass, though that certainly “helps”.
This doesn’t have to be true. I have explained to one of my kids when asked why I don’t think the rich are good people.
Me: Well, what would you do with a billion dollars?
Them: buy lots of toys
Me: ok, after you have bought all the toys in the store, what would you do?
Them: Buy toys for all my friends… Well maybe they could have the ones I’m not using. Buy a house? Buy you a new car?
Me: What would you do after you had bought all that and still have almost all of the billion dollars left over, since a billion is so huge?
Them: um, buy houses for the people that don’t have houses? And food for the people that don’t have enough food?
Ultimately I believe that to have a billion dollars for any decent length of time you are probably a bad person, because even a kid’s instinct is to use that money to help others’, even people they don’t know.
While wealth might make people bad as you imply, I think an equally valid option is that good people don’t stay wealthy because they use the money to help others.
Okay you have to be a troll, but just in case you aren’t: If poverty was caused by “low IQ” (which btw IQ is correlated with education so that’s a circular argument even if true) rich people who are dumb wouldn’t exist.
Because they think they know better than us hoi polloi. Seriously. There’s a psych term that escapes me, but once a person gains wealth and power, they think they know better than the rest of us and the rules don’t apply to them.
One of the most horrifying things I know about humans is that almost all of us are susceptible to this and it’s not simply a matter of people kissing their ass, though that certainly “helps”.
This doesn’t have to be true. I have explained to one of my kids when asked why I don’t think the rich are good people.
Me: Well, what would you do with a billion dollars?
Them: buy lots of toys
Me: ok, after you have bought all the toys in the store, what would you do?
Them: Buy toys for all my friends… Well maybe they could have the ones I’m not using. Buy a house? Buy you a new car?
Me: What would you do after you had bought all that and still have almost all of the billion dollars left over, since a billion is so huge?
Them: um, buy houses for the people that don’t have houses? And food for the people that don’t have enough food?
Ultimately I believe that to have a billion dollars for any decent length of time you are probably a bad person, because even a kid’s instinct is to use that money to help others’, even people they don’t know.
While wealth might make people bad as you imply, I think an equally valid option is that good people don’t stay wealthy because they use the money to help others.
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Okay you have to be a troll, but just in case you aren’t: If poverty was caused by “low IQ” (which btw IQ is correlated with education so that’s a circular argument even if true) rich people who are dumb wouldn’t exist.
Read their username. They’re obviously a troll, probably piloted by an LLM.
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sources?
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the IQ is not a valid test of mental aptitude just like the BMI is not a valid test of physical aptitude
Imagine having an iq of only 105, bragging about it, and spouting iq-justified nazi shit
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Thanks fcr confirming how lamely average you are
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mid
Troll account.
poverty does cause theft. Frater, examine yourself and improve
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Criminal Tribes Act Thinking, this is just racism