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Has "Rich" become the new quasi-racial slur - with studies to show that the Rich are genetically stupid, greedy and now mean. Does the story really not link to

Has "Rich" become the new quasi-racial slur - with studies to show that the Rich are genetically stupid, greedy and now mean. Does the story really not link to even one "Study"? If the studies exists, are they pier reviewed? What happened to the Washington post? Didn't they report news at one point?

cokernel 10y ago
The article links to multiple studies, for example: * Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/21/11/1716 http://pss.sagepub.com/content/21/11/1716 * Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.full http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.full * The Psychological Consequences of Money: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/314/5802/1154 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/314/5802/1154 * Social status modulates neural activity in the mentalizing network: https://keelyamuscatell.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/muscatell_2012_neuroimage.pdf https://keelyamuscatell.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/muscatel... (from NeuroImage) * Noblesse Oblige? Social Status and Economic Inequality Maintenance among Politicians: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0085293 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... * Having Less, Giving More: The Influence of Social Class on Prosocial Behavior: http://www.krauslab.com/SESprosocialJPSP.2010.pdf http://www.krauslab.com/SESprosocialJPSP.2010.pdf (from J. Pers. Soc. Psych.) * Class and Compassion: Socioeconomic Factors Predict Responses to Suffering: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4MZvkUMsuJ_dmtEZUxOaFJZaFU/view?pref=2&pli=1 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4MZvkUMsuJ_dmtEZUxOaFJZaFU... (from Emotion) I omitted the study in the Chronicle of Philanthropy from this list because I couldn't find the actual data.
mark_edward 10y ago
The poor rich so maligned and oppressed by society. At least they can afford to buy the world's tiniest violin.
Applejinx 10y ago
Not genetically, surely. I'd think that has nothing to do with it. Stupid to the extent that they can be incurious and rely on their stored capital to avoid intellectually difficult problems, greedy as a self-selecting behavior, and mean because that appears to be an epiphenomenon: no direct mechanism by which wealth makes you a jerk, but a whole spectrum of associations and conditions which make being a rich jerk by far the most comfortable thing to be. I'm not sure if it counts as a slur. To a rich person, isn't 'poor' the real slur? Surely meanness is sort of orthoganal to what being rich is about, or even helpful? Also, I'm not sure this alone is harmful to society. If we acknowledge the very rich are evil jerks by nature, all that really means is 'maybe we shouldn't listen to them on moral topics' and 'maybe their opinions on how to run society are not trustworthy, because they're evil jerks by nature and will disproportionately favor themselves even when taking a larger view would be advantageous'. Just don't let them write the tax code, and they can be evil all they like, perhaps to their neighbors or social inferiors :)

cokernel 10y ago

The article links to multiple studies, for example: * Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/21/11/1716 http://pss.sagepub.com/content/21/11/1716 * Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.full http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.full * The Psychological Consequences of Money: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/314/5802/1154 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/314/5802/1154 * Social status modulates neural activity in the mentalizing network: https://keelyamuscatell.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/muscatell_2012_neuroimage.pdf https://keelyamuscatell.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/muscatel... (from NeuroImage) * Noblesse Oblige? Social Status and Economic Inequality Maintenance among Politicians: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0085293 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... * Having Less, Giving More: The Influence of Social Class on Prosocial Behavior: http://www.krauslab.com/SESprosocialJPSP.2010.pdf http://www.krauslab.com/SESprosocialJPSP.2010.pdf (from J. Pers. Soc. Psych.) * Class and Compassion: Socioeconomic Factors Predict Responses to Suffering: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4MZvkUMsuJ_dmtEZUxOaFJZaFU/view?pref=2&pli=1 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4MZvkUMsuJ_dmtEZUxOaFJZaFU... (from Emotion) I omitted the study in the Chronicle of Philanthropy from this list because I couldn't find the actual data.

mark_edward 10y ago

The poor rich so maligned and oppressed by society. At least they can afford to buy the world's tiniest violin.

Applejinx 10y ago

Not genetically, surely. I'd think that has nothing to do with it. Stupid to the extent that they can be incurious and rely on their stored capital to avoid intellectually difficult problems, greedy as a self-selecting behavior, and mean because that appears to be an epiphenomenon: no direct mechanism by which wealth makes you a jerk, but a whole spectrum of associations and conditions which make being a rich jerk by far the most comfortable thing to be. I'm not sure if it counts as a slur. To a rich person, isn't 'poor' the real slur? Surely meanness is sort of orthoganal to what being rich is about, or even helpful? Also, I'm not sure this alone is harmful to society. If we acknowledge the very rich are evil jerks by nature, all that really means is 'maybe we shouldn't listen to them on moral topics' and 'maybe their opinions on how to run society are not trustworthy, because they're evil jerks by nature and will disproportionately favor themselves even when taking a larger view would be advantageous'. Just don't let them write the tax code, and they can be evil all they like, perhaps to their neighbors or social inferiors :)