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Does Money Make You Mean?

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One study in the Netherlands which used real-life millionaires as its participants found they were more generous than the average person when given a small sum of money to keep or share.

Analyses of population data by academics in Europe failed to find any link between wealth and a lack of generosity. If anything, they found the reverse, that wealthier individuals were more likely to offer time and money to others.
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JesasaurusRex said:
Only a poor person would make a thread like this
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This.

It's an age old expression. The people who complain the most about people with money are the ones who don't fucking have any.

Sure I see the occasional wealthy person that fits the description and thinks the world revolves around them. And those are probably the people in some expensive car that commit some act of vehicular fuckery like taking up two parking spots, merging with no blinker or even looking, and so on that has caused the OP to deliberately do some type of preemptive prick move on the freeway with Teslas. But I also see plenty of middle classers act like this. If you can't make it, fake it right? And I see even more poor people act this way with some attitude of "I've got nothing really to lose so I'm gonna just do whatever the hell I want and you all can just deal with it."

Wanna know what's the biggest double standard ever? If poor people complain about rich people acting like assholes, it for the most part is just dismissed as minor grumblings of disgruntled people and is socially acceptable. If rich people bitch too hard about poor people being assholes (collecting welfare/unemployment/gov assistance forever with no attempt to be self sufficient, skipping out on debts because they just declare BK, instead of bettering their situation they spend whatever money they can find on frivolous shit like new Air Jordans, or whatever), then the richh are viewed as level 9000 turbo elitistists looking down are the peasants from the ivory tower with zero empathy. If there ever was some kind of reverse occupy Wall Street movement where the 1%ers protested, they'd get burned at the stake.
 
kevin 714 said:
I'm not talking about people who have shiny things to appear rich .

I work in custom construction and deal with wealthy people, extremely wealthy people, as a regular part of my job.
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So, are they mean for the sake and/or enjoyment of being mean? Or, could it be that they are spending allot of money on a project, have high standards, and want what they're paying for?
 
DReg350 said:
So, are they mean for the sake and/or enjoyment of being mean? Or, could it be that they are spending allot of money on a project, have high standards, and want what they're paying for?
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I'm not complaining about the actions of clients

There's no real correlation between whether a client is a pain or not, when it comes to money. The guy I did some work for yesterday is worth a few hundred million, and he was chill as can be in terms of handling the nuances of construction.

Unless they're in mill valley. Then you're an asshole
 
Sure looks that way doesn't it Dave?

Says this....

kevin 714 said:
Money and desire for money corrupts
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kevin 714 said:
I disagree. Having a large sum of money requires a willful ignorance on the nature of how that money was gotten.
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Then flip flops 12 hours later because he just dealt with a 1%er that's actually was nice.


kevin 714 said:
There's no real correlation between whether a client is a pain or not, when it comes to money. The guy I did some work for yesterday is worth a few hundred million, and he was chill as can be in terms of handling the nuances of construction.
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afm199 said:
I've know some really neat rich folk, and some super assholes. Generally speaking the asshole wins out. It's just how it works. Super rich are comfortable around super rich. How may people hang out with street people? Not many.

We all end up in the ground.
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I spend a LOT of time with Street People. Street People are almost always meaner, but almost always more careful to manage the potential repercussions of their behavior. I suppose you could get in to a long debate about the definition of mean vs. entitled, but it is silly semantics at that point.
 
Eldritch said:
I spend a LOT of time with Street People. Street People are almost always meaner, but almost always more careful to manage the potential repercussions of their behavior. I suppose you could get in to a long debate about the definition of mean vs. entitled, but it is silly semantics at that point.
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Perhaps. If a poor person ripped me off and took things that meant allot to me, I'd think that person was mean. They might think I'm rich and could replace what they'd taken; therefore, they're entitled to take my things. :dunno
 
You're the mean average... Scoring from 5-9 also suggests you're about half way up the socio-economic ladder.
You scored 5 out of 14
The original studies run by psychologist Paul Piff posed similar scenarios to the ones in this quiz. He found that as people moved up the socio-economic ladder, they were more inclined to put their own interests first.
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does this make me middle class?!?
 
Snapping Twig said:
Money does not change people, it reveals them.
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Ooh, that is good, I like that one.

Sharky said:
Ok Elmer,
Give me all your money. Lets see if I become a bigger A-hole.

You are really amazing in your level of commitment to the cause Comrade.
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No, dude, he is/was actually an East Bay Communist Party recruiter. That shit came up in a thread a few years back.
 
kevin 714 said:
I'm not complaining about the actions of clients

There's no real correlation between whether a client is a pain or not, when it comes to money. The guy I did some work for yesterday is worth a few hundred million, and he was chill as can be in terms of handling the nuances of construction.

Unless they're in mill valley. Then you're an asshole
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Damn Kevin, are you rich, you sure are mean!

J/K, sounds like you are rich in experiences. I've run into more mean poor assholes than mean rich assholes.
 
TheRobSJ said:
Sure looks that way doesn't it Dave?

Says this....






Then flip flops 12 hours later because he just dealt with a 1%er that's actually was nice.
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Well I never said money makes you mean, I said money corrupts, which I stand by

Someone assumed I meant rich people were a pain to work with, which wasn't wgat I was sayinh.
 
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MrIncredible said:
Are you saying you have no proof money makes you mean?
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I have no proof, no. I'm not sure how you'd even prove that



Again, I never said it makes you mean, I said it corrupts and hsving s significant amount of money requires some willful ignorance on exactly how the origin of that money causes suffering


You can be a nice bad person. Shit you can even be pleasant
 
I believe it turns the weak into mean people but for the most part money doesn't make you evil.

My parents are pretty well off and are the nicest people I know. Both volunteer and are constantly involved in the community.

The article is super bias because people who are rich are on cruise control. Their investments are across the board and all they do is check in weekly to ensure the plan they have laid out is still working. Now of course there are megalomaniacs out there that just want to fuck over everyone and take everything for themselves but they are a small percentage.
 
kevin 714 said:
I have no proof, no. I'm not sure how you'd even prove that



Again, I never said it makes you mean, I said it corrupts and hsving s significant amount of money requires some willful ignorance on exactly how the origin of that money causes suffering


You can be a nice bad person. Shit you can even be pleasant
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Kev, you're normally well spoken but I haven't seen you make a well laid out argument for what you're saying. I'm still not clear on how having a significant (please define significant) amount of money requires willful ignorance. Are you saying you can't come by money without causing suffering? If one does necessarily cause suffering through the generation of wealth, why do you insist they must be unaware of said suffering they caused?

Perhaps it's my unwillful ignorance but I can't figure out what you're saying.
 
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