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Makes me think of the “delayed gratification” experiments. Someone who is of means probably has an easier time delaying gratification because they have the mean
by civopsec 4y ago
Makes me think of the “delayed gratification” experiments. Someone who is of means probably has an easier time delaying gratification because they have the means to figuratively “break the fast”. They also know that they have the resources to get somewhere in life. But what if you don’t? What if that “instant gratification” is all that you can expect to get for a good while?
- forgotusername6 4y agoRelevant Orwell quote "And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play. When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don't want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit 'tasty'. There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you"
- zimpenfish 4y ago> Makes me think of the “delayed gratification” experiments. Since debunked[1], mind you - "Celeste Kidd published The Marshmallow Study Revisited in which she disproved the conclusions made in the original Marshmallow experiment" [1] https://medium.com/21st-century-tidbits/delayed-gratification-what-it-is-and-why-it-is-overrated-d1c28290bdbd https://medium.com/21st-century-tidbits/delayed-gratificatio...
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