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indeed, but if that same person wasn't raised comparatively wealthy would he still be a jerk? I suspect yes - a counter example, many people are raised wealthy
by chadcmulligan 6y ago
indeed, but if that same person wasn't raised comparatively wealthy would he still be a jerk? I suspect yes - a counter example, many people are raised wealthy but aren't narcissistic, and I know of people with narcissistic traits that aren't raised particularly wealthy, and indeed are comparatively poor and yet those traits come out. They have brothers and sisters that aren't narcissistic and yet given the same environment etc they behave like so.
- jariel 6y agoSo you're getting at 'wealth<->narcissism' which I'm not sure is necessarily correlated. I don't know. I was getting at 'nature vs. nurture' - and there is definitely a 'learned' aspect to narcissism etc..
- chadcmulligan 6y agoit is interesting - perhaps a sense of entitlement I was thinking - more likely to be from wealth, but not necessarily.
- jariel 6y agoYes actually that's probably true. But prisons are full of narcissistic personality disorder types as well. Most wealthy people score very high on levels of conscientiousness - they generally behave well, not recklessly. But that includes doctors, etc. - not so much the bankers, executives and people that can get into situations of real leverage and power. It's
- chadcmulligan 6y ago> Most wealthy people score very high on levels of conscientiousness references?