The rich really are different from the rest of us, scientists have found — they are more apt to commit unethical acts because they are more motivated by greed.

People driving expensive cars were more likely than other motorists to cut off drivers and pedestrians at a four-way-stop intersection in the San Francisco Bay Area, UC Berkeley researchers observed. Those findings led to a series of experiments that revealed that people of higher socioeconomic status were also more likely to cheat to win a prize, take candy from children and say they would pocket extra change handed to them in error rather than give it back.

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-0228-greed-20120228,0,5965885.story

Just goes to show that lots of the people lauded as role models and exemplars of society are basically sociopaths!

Well duh!

I do all of that and I’m not rich, I’m just an asshole.

Doesn’t always work though. I’m skint, yet I’m still a right ****! 😉

at the moment I give my wife a lift to work and have to go through a very affluent area in North London – driving through tight streets with cars parked either side, it seems the better your car, the more rights you think you have… BUT they don’t realise that I don’t care if my car gets damaged. Stalemate.

Wrecker and binners – the exception that proves the rule.

There was also some research recently that showed that right wing people tend to be less intelligent. So the fact that we currently have rich right wingers running the country says it all really 😉

BUT they don’t realise that I don’t care if my car gets damaged. Stalemate.

What you need is a car which makes it clear to everybody else that you don’t care if it gets damaged – I had a dented old Escort when I drove across London regularly and it was perfect.

My experience of the very rich people I know, is that they are alarmingly similar to the grindingly poor people I know (as in people in deep, generational poverty, not folk who are bit skint at the moment). Both are careless, self destructive and anti-social because they know no matter what impression they try to make the people around them will despise them on principle, they’ve no reputation to loose. So I’d suggest the behaviour outlined above is a consequence of being rich, not the quality you require to become rich.

There was also some research recently that showed that right wing people tend to be less intelligent.

Wel thatz gud. at leest Im not a fik asshole. 😉

It doesn’t matter what car you drive, even in an expensive car you’ll feel, at the cusp of anger, that you could happily hit that dodgy old escort.

I don’t think I know any properly rich people.

I know people who, despite the broken economy and the whole world going wrong, don’t need to worry about money or make any lifestyle changes. I guess they’re just ‘well-off’ rather than ‘rich’.

I suspect it’s the people who are motivated by getting/being rich are the ones who are highlighted in the survey as being the ‘sociopaths’.

Some people are rich but remain humble and generally ‘nice’.

we currently have rich right wingers running the country says it all really

which differs from the previous administration how? 😈

This system we have built for ourselves rewards those characteristics we typically find despicable in human beings. Philanthropy seldom yields financial reward.

Not only are the selfish more likely to be successful, but success itself fortifies selfishness. The numerous gaping cracks in this system of ours are always going to be hard to spot from the back seat of a Rolls Royce.

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we currently have rich right wingers running the country says it all really

which differs from the previous administration how?

See I think the UK government has always been fairly left leaning in my lifetime, especially when you compare it to the like of the USA and other properly right countries. Went to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam this time last year and noted that even they seemed more right wing than the UK.

Agreed. there are so many comments that “Chavs” drag down society and behave on a non socail way.
However in my dealings with group execs, MD’s etc, i’ve seen there actions are calous, selfish and agressive.. some example for society…

I don’t know which I’d believe more, that rich people are greedy or that the media will sensationalise anything in order to sell papers.

80% of my customers are in the ‘wealthy bracket’.
Out of those, the old money types are lovely, caring, considerate and seem to do a lot for charity etc. However the ‘new money’ types are greedy, look down on me like some sort of servant, pay late, ignorant and selfish. Luckily I only come across a few of them.
IME.

What you need is a car which makes it clear to everybody else that you don’t care if it gets damaged – I had a dented old Escort when I drove across London regularly and it was perfect.

I’d second that tactic. It can also help to keep your tax disc in the glove compartment for that truly uninsured look. 🙂

EAT THE RICH

My experience of the very rich people I know, is that they are alarmingly similar to the grindingly poor people I know (as in people in deep, generational poverty, not folk who are bit skint at the moment). Both are careless, self destructive and anti-social because they know no matter what impression they try to make the people around them will despise them on principle, they’ve no reputation to loose. So I’d suggest the behaviour outlined above is a consequence of being rich, not the quality you require to become rich.

This is spot on. It’s the same reason only the very polar in society can give their children stupid names. You can bet your bottom dollar someone called Kayden or Blaze either lives in a trailer or a mansion.

Great input Solo, thanks for that.

Peh !.

Can’t be assed

😆