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Upper class people are more likely to snatch from a children’s supply of candy [IG nobel economics prize 2026] (improbable.com)
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IG NOBEL ECONOMICS PRIZE 2026 [USA, MEXICO, CANADA] Paul Piff, Daniel Stancato, Stéphane Côté, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, and Dacher Keltner, for amassing evidence that upper class people are more likely to snatch from a children’s supply of candy, and engage in other kinds of unethical behavior.

REFERENCE: “Higher Social Class Predicts Increased Unethical Behavior,” Paul K. Piff, Daniel M. Stancato, Stéphane Côté, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, and Dacher Keltner, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 109, no. 11, 2012, pp. 4086-4091. <doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118373109> WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Paul Piff

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[–] 27 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Very little wealth is created, it is more commonly amassed by taking it from others and more importantly it is hoarded by an ability in the individual to override the feelings of immorality that arise from seeing the effects of its grossly uneven distribution. This coarse lack of empathy is scalable and holds from impoverishing entire societies to stealing candy from babies.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    a lot of rich people are rich because that way you don't have to see any affects of a lack of wealth.

    that's the point. that's why they social isolate themselves in gated communities and exclusive resorts.

    being subject to having to look at poor people suffering is a thing only poor people have to suffer.

    your idea that rich people have 'feelings of immorality' makes me laugh, because you clearly dont' know any rich people, they don't have these feelings at all. that 'feeling 'is a projection of the poor onto the wealthy who think they know how the wealthier live and feel.... you don't. they live in another plane of existence and the concept of 'uneven distribution' doesn't exist to them.

    you can't care about stealing candy from babies if you don't even know the babies exist. that's the element you are missing.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    TittyFrog, or perhaps if I could call you Titty, I cannot accept your analysis, I was very clearly making the point that a greatly atrophied morality was one of the primary prerequisites to the accumulation of a superabundance of wealth. Physical removal from poverty is minor Titty compared to the cognitive removal.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    you realize rich people are human beings right?

    they aren't aliens from another planet. they have all the same emotions and desires as you do. they just have more money than you do, so they have more ability to fulfill their desires.

    It's ironic, you expect them to have empathy for you, but you have none for them. You here, demonstrate yourself, that you have 'othered' them, and yet you think they shouldn't 'other' people who aren't rich.

    Why do you do this? because you are cognitively removed from knowing wealthy people and they exist entirely in your imagination as these psychopathic monsters. further, I doubt you have any more empathy for the impoverished in Africa, than they do.

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