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how do you define "human"?

• evincarofautumn 14y ago
  The researchers mentioned in this article were generally measuring empathetic, selfless, or compassionate behaviour, and the effect of wealth (or perceived wealth) on that. So “human” in the sense of “humane”.
  • blueprint 14y ago
    Selflessness and compassion (at least, for that which occurred from wrong behavior) are common among people who are ignorant of the importance of justice (which may be defined as revealing things as they really are) and the danger of compromising with injustice. Also, in order not to lose all of one's money, one needs to be careful not to be deceived (which requires keeping oneself and acting to serve oneself and the world, rather than selflessness). Are you sure the experiment was able to control for those two issues?
    • crusso 14y ago
      I wondered the same thing. The beginning of the article started with the implicit assumption that one can learn anything at all about "rich people" from watching a couple of folks play a rigged game of MONOPOLY. It didn't get any more academically rigorous, so I attributed its rise in HN to being link-bait and decided I had more important things to do with my day like getting rich so I can become inhumane.
      • Benjo 14y ago
        If you'd prefer to read something with more rigor: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxwYXVscGlmZnxneDoxNzNmMTIwNDk5MTJiMzlj https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=Z...