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Human society overwhelmingly rewards lying cheating and stealing. All you have to do is look at how we collectively measure success: wealth, status, position.
by Papazsazsa 2mo ago
Human society overwhelmingly rewards lying cheating and stealing. All you have to do is look at how we collectively measure success: wealth, status, position.
It may seem like that due to the media amplification effect – but it really isn't true!
- They dropped 17,000 “lost” wallets across 40 countries were and found people were more likely to return them when they contained more money, showing honesty often beats the chance for easy gain. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau8712 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau8712
- Longitudinal personality studies consistently show that conscientious people earn more money, build more savings, and achieve greater career success over their lifetimes. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3498890/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3498890/
- Multi-country research finds that societies w/higher levels of trust and honesty enjoy much higher GDP and stronger long-term economic growth. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016726811630052X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01672...
Don't let the algo get you down fellas: https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/KTEK4ICKB4I6XF5WJ247OL7UNM.jpg https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.c...
- notanastronaut 2mo agoThe ratio of billionaires to regular people is about 1 billionaire for every 2.67 million people. I wouldn't trust leaving my wallet around in certain areas and I certainly wouldn't leave my intellectual property around certain people, either.
- ambicapter 2mo agoI believe it. Being bad just has a better marketing campaign.
- AndrewKemendo 2mo agoThe fatal flaw in your argument is that none of the measures that you’re using actually have any impact on real world day-to-day power otherwise slave camps would not exist, there would’ve never been a pogrom, and the current state of economics would just not be happening I certainly appreciate your optimism but optimism is not an epistemology
- Papazsazsa 2mo agoPlease define "real world day-to-day power"
- AndrewKemendo 2mo agohttps://www.sakkyndig.com/psykologi/artvit/babiak2010.pdf https://www.sakkyndig.com/psykologi/artvit/babiak2010.pdf 1/5 CEOs are psychopaths The people giving back wallets aren’t running companies and governments