Friday, February 7, 2014

Money Can't Buy You Empathy, Apparently

A couple of videos for your StupidiVid Friday viewing pleasure, first up, a TedX talk from social psychologist Paul Piff on how people behave in a rigged Monopoly game where one person (determined by a coin toss) is clearly rich and has all the rules favoring them, and the other player doesn't.  Here's a hint: lots of money turns people into complete jackasses with all the empathy of a hunk of volcanic pumice.




Second, a Bloomberg News piece on billionaire investor Sam Zell, on why the one percent is better than you are.  Here's a hint: lots of money turns people into complete jackasses with all the empathy of a hunk of volcanic pumice.




The more money you have, the less empathy you have, period.  Nothing new there, but it's worth reinforcing.


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