Guamer [she/her]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoThe fact that billionaires do what they do and don't, I dunno, buy Hearst Castle and turn into a personal gamer castle or something shows what sickos they really aremessage-squaremessage-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up177arrow-down1message-squareThe fact that billionaires do what they do and don't, I dunno, buy Hearst Castle and turn into a personal gamer castle or something shows what sickos they really areGuamer [she/her]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square27linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCollatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoOr it is possible that people with empathy deficiency have much better odds of becoming wealthy. Or both ways.
minus-squareUlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThe studies didn’t conclude whether wealth made them assholes or if assholes become wealthy, but considering how much wealth is inherited and maintained by inheritance, I think it leans toward the latter.
minus-squareCollatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt can be a feedback loop too.
Or it is possible that people with empathy deficiency have much better odds of becoming wealthy. Or both ways.
The studies didn’t conclude whether wealth made them assholes or if assholes become wealthy, but considering how much wealth is inherited and maintained by inheritance, I think it leans toward the latter.
It can be a feedback loop too.