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http://billmoyers.com/2013/08/27/a-plutocracy-ruled-by-self-centered-jerks/A Plutocracy Ruled by Self-Centered Jerks?
August 27, 2013
by Joshua Holland
Two studies released last week confirmed what most of us already knew: the ultra-wealthy tend to be narcissistic and have a greater sense of entitlement than the rest of us, and Congress only pays attention to their interests. Both studies are consistent with earlier research.
In the first study, published in the current Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Paul Piff of UC Berkeley conducted five experiments which demonstrated that higher social class is associated with increased entitlement and narcissism. Given the opportunity, Piff also found that they were more likely to check themselves out in a mirror than were those of lesser means.
Piff looked at how participants scored on a standard scale of psychological entitlement, and found that those of a high social class based on income levels, education and occupational prestige were more likely to say I honestly feel Im just more deserving than others, while people further down the social ladder were likelier to respond, I do not necessarily deserve special treatment.
In an earlier study, published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Piff and four researchers from the University of Toronto conducted a series of experiments which found that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. This included being more likely to display unethical decision-making, steal, lie during a negotiation and cheat in order to win a contest.
In one telling experiment, the researchers observed a busy intersection, and found that drivers of luxury cars were more likely to cut off other drivers and less likely to stop for pedestrians crossing the street than those behind the wheels of more modest vehicles. In our crosswalk study, none of the cars in the beater-car category drove through the crosswalk, Piff told The New York Times. But you see this huge boost in a drivers likelihood to commit infractions in more expensive cars. He added: BMW drivers are the worst.
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A Plutocracy Ruled by Self-Centered Jerks? (Original Post)
G_j
Aug 2013
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demosocialist
(184 posts)1. 1st to rec.... im so entitled :P nt
mick063
(2,424 posts)2. "and Congress only pays attention to their interests"
Throw the President and Supreme court in there and you have the Trifecta.