I'm inclined to think that is more likely the case. Being selfish and having the guts to cut corners and take what you want. Obviously you'd need to be smart about it.
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I'm inclined to think that is more likely the case. Being selfish and having the guts to cut corners and take what you want. Obviously you'd need to be smart about it.
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zero shift
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Too bad Communism didn't work.
SocksAndShoes
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Well they play what appears to be actual footage of the monopoly experiment later so....
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But combination of socialism and capitalism does.
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Saw it before. May have a link to the actual paper, but I'll need to look.
Hmm, I don't, but I did save these articles about it:
http://nymag.com/news/features/money-brain-2012-7/
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business-jan-june13-makingsense_06-21/
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What makes Daily show segments work so well is that they let real people hang themselves in situations. It's genuine reactions of the people.
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re-enacted, most likely. The presentation is just to make it look real.
SocksAndShoes
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But then why isn't the first re-enactment framed in the same way?
For the record I don't doubt it's real, It's just poorly presented.
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No, it's a real footage. See it explained in that Ted Talk video that was linked.
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The video I linked on the previous page has some footage of the participants' behavior in the original experiment.
zero shift
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The sad thing is that with the exception of Iceland, Social Democracies seem to be inching away from being social democracies. Just look at the recent Swedish election.
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I just need you by my side baby.
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That's not it. What the monopoly study showed is that people who are rich are more likely to be selfish because they think they deserve it. They start rationalizing their success by thinking themselves better than poor people, so of course they can just take this candy, or ignore that law.
Well, in that case, I'm on my way...
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Yeah, there's brief flashes of real experiment footage interspersed in the OP link, but I think the parts where the host re-enacts the scenario makes the entire thing feel more hokey for people.
Yeah, the Monopoly experiment gives one of the two players an unfair set of advantages, like an extra dice roll or more starting money. As they start winning the game, their attitudes towards the other player shifts. They tend to start trash talking the other player more, take more candy and afterwards when asked why they won they'd be fully convinced it was because of their superior strategy and skills.
You could probably do an interesting equivalent study with something like Halo, where you give one player on a team a permanent Overshield or Rocket Launcher as his starting weapon and see how that shifts inter-personal dynamics. The outcome would probably be very similar.
Is it honestly difficult for you to come up with reasons? Or with luxury cars do you only count cars > 80k or something?
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Yeah, they be making payments too. Most people have a lot of debt.
Since this still seems to be a point of contention... if you got into an expensive sports car there's no doubt you would drive differently. A Mercedes or BMW is a little more subtle, but certain cars carry status, regardless of the good deal you may or may not have gotten on them. The whole point in these experiments is, if you feel rich, you will act rich. No one knows you got your shiny BMW used for a great price.
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Really interesting video. Watched the whole thing through. I'm thinking that it's not that the rich people try to be a dick to others, it's just that they feel more in control, dominant, or alpha if you want to call it that.
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Why do pedestrians feel entitled to cross the street whenever they want? If you're not in the middle of the road then I'm not going to stop. Wait for a break in traffic or go to a crosswalk with a light.
cartoon_soldier
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Speaking strictly of the kids in college/young generation, I think a lot depends on how the kids are raised too and what kind of exposure they have, what their socio-economic circle has been growing up.
Just-world hypothesis in action.
They are entitled to cross the street whenever they want to on crosswalks. It's the law.
They are entitled to cross the street whenever they want to on crosswalks. It's the law.
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Elitist Real Talk: I have a really awesome old car, an '82 Porsche 911, and while I am the biggest liberal I know most of the time, when I am driving that car I feel special. Do rules apply to me? Nope! Do I have to obey the speed limit? Nope! People stop to watch me drive by, I don't give a shit, I'm the best!
And then I get out and go "awww I'm still just another white-collar shleb working for the man."
And then I get out and go "awww I'm still just another white-collar shleb working for the man."
There is an incredibly strong correlation between people who have wealth and people who drive expensive cars, so it doesn't matter that there are some exceptions.
Yes, but I think that the point of this study is to show that this general rule applies even if one of the participants is given an unfair advantage. The study is basically an extension of the idea that people will attribute victory to their own skill, and shows that this rule applies even when a participant is given an unfair advantage.
Hmm... Personal experience is put to question since there is no way of me knowing if the people I came across felt like they were rich or not. Some high income families feel like they don't have much because of the payments they are making.
That being said, working in a restaurant made me feel that I could simply imagine how often the customer had been to expensive/good service restaurants in general. Perhaps this is something that has more of an effect in Western society.
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This shit is super true in online games. But then again...
That being said, working in a restaurant made me feel that I could simply imagine how often the customer had been to expensive/good service restaurants in general. Perhaps this is something that has more of an effect in Western society.
BLABLABLABLABLABLA
This shit is super true in online games. But then again...
Yea seriously, they put shitty candy there. Put some bite size snickers in there and see how that experiment goes.
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Remember him? He's still at it. His instagram is pretty entertaining if only for the comments on his photos. Lots of salty peasants.
Not exactly a server, but I delivered pizzas for three years a while back.
There would kind of be a bias here, because I can remember every mansion that didn't tip shit but don't remember the average house that didn't.
SliceSabre
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Richer people cheat more.
Water is wet, the sky is blue...
Water is wet, the sky is blue...
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wroooong thread, fuck.
You jelly?
Cameron122
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I try to remind myself that my parents are rich, but I myself am poor as shit
Jag
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I have a weakness for pretzels. Put a bowl in front of me and it's gone. Rich or poor.
I also drive a BMW and probably would be one of those dicks that drive through the intersection. I don't think it's a rich thing. I think it's a BMW driver being a dick thing. I tend to be much more aggressive when driving my car.
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I read about a research paper recently that claimed wealthy people look at the homeless the same way non-wealthy look at a pile of trash. The non-wealthy brain showed signs of activity considered as responses of empathy and sadness when they looked at images of homeless people, the wealthy showed responses of disgust.
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Money can't buy taste. And they all aren't bad.
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There's other studies that state briefly looking at the imagery of money temporarily dampens your empathy through priming. Subjects were less likely to give to charity with money on their mind, for instance.
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