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No, you will find quite extensive social studies done on this, weirdly with usually no echo in the press. One that had echo was that they gave 10k to a selectio
by orwin 3y ago
No, you will find quite extensive social studies done on this, weirdly with usually no echo in the press. One that had echo was that they gave 10k to a selection of people, and those had to choose wether or not to share those 10k with a random someone they didn't know. The amount shared diminished the more wealthy people are.
Other studies are done on wealthy people, and it was also found that self made men where way more generous than nepo babies. Which is coherent with the monopoly study: people with unfair advantages tends to fall deep into the fondamental attribution error.
- dwallin 3y agoI'd be curious to see how many studies controlled for relative emotional value of money, eg. by looking for differences in behavior for all groups at various values. One could hypothesize that people might be more willing to share an unexpected "windfall", the perception of which could feasibly scale with one's emotional perception of wealth.
- orwin 3y agoNo, it was tested with games and stuff, having wealth reduce cooperative behaviors https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01973533.2018.1463225?journalCode=hbas20 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01973533.2018.14... It should be noted that wealth is a proxy for status and for power, so it might not be wealth itself that reinforce sociopathic/anti-cooperative behaviors, but status or power, but it is hard to dissociate.