Piff. 2012. Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10.1073/pnas.1118373109
"Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals."
Here's a completely unrelated thread I also wrote. Completely.
@jmcrookston so affluenza is real
@jmcrookston Nothing ruins the psyche quite like being ultra-wealthy.
@jmcrookston You think?
Well the authors suggested it might have been that lower class people might behave unethically to get ahead.
Looks like they default to not doing that and the higher class people default to doing that.
I get what you're saying though. In a lot of ways it's just telling us the expected result.
@jmcrookston And in other news, water is wet…
Yeah that would probably require a lot of rational behaviour out of humanity ...
Still nice to have simple studies proving this conclusion though
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Hooray for that lede!
"Seven studies reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals.
…more likely to break the law while driving
…more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies
…take valued goods from others
…lie in a negotiation
…cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize
…endorse unethical behavior at work
[T]endencies are accounted for, inpart, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed"
@jmcrookston How else do become upper class?
Perhaps but this is showing that the mere fact of being of higher standing is correlated with changed behaviour.
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How do we think they became upper class individuals. By being born into families with the right genetics.
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You could definitely convince me of that.
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As Emmanuel Macron said "Qui aurait pu prédire?"
@jmcrookston Ga -- and I can't stress this enough --- sp. It's credible. Utterly thinkable.
This is a good reminder about why the upper class is OK with genocide either from actual bombs or through #ClimateBreakdown
I used to think that they simply didn't understand that billions of people will die. More and more evidence points to the fact that they really don't care that billions of people will die.
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And they probably excluded the pyschopathic oligarch class because they didn't want to have results that were extreme, like climate science moderating its results in the 1990's so people wouldn't dismiss the results as too wild.
Science needs to be conservative, but why not run two data sets, one incuding the extreme data to contrast against the moderated/controlled results?
@jmcrookston yeah. maybe it's time to call this shit income class instead of social class.
Are they higher class because they behave unethically?
Or do they learn to be unethical because they were born high class?
Both?