Money Makes You mean

[superpatriotman]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/money-and-behavior_n_1651872.html

Overall, research shows that having a lot of money is not necessarily a benefit, at least when it comes to embodying characteristics that lead to inner peace like empathy, honesty and compassion. In fact it's quite the opposite: Money can make you mean, according to this week's cover story in New York magazine.

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In another study, Paul Piff, a psychologist who studies how money affects behavior, also at the UC Berkeley, showed that drivers of high-end, luxury cars were more likely to cut off other vehicles and even pedestrians trying to cross a sidewalk.

"The rich are more likely to prioritize their own self-interests above the interests of other people," Piff told New York magazine. "It makes them more likely to exhibit characteristic that we would stereotypically associate, with, say, assholes."

[seabeyond]

1. a lot of things make people mean. nt

[cynatnite]

2. That's like saying alcohol makes people mean...

My grandpa got mean when he drank hard liquor. Doesn't mean that it happens to everyone.

[DCKit]

11. Nope, it's genetic.

Maybe a choice, but I'm going with genetic.

[hack89]

3. But if you start off super nice like me .... nt

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. Luke 12

13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

14 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?”

15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”

16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.

17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’

18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.

19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”

[Bluerthanblue]

5. anything can make you mean- the lack of money

can also make a person mean.

JD Rockefeller Sr. wasn't particularly mean- He was actually pretty generous.

An interesting read none the less.

[BOG PERSON]

7. agreed

poverty will make a person really mean too, but in a different way

[Egalitarian Thug]

6. Or, our system rewards mean people much more than the considerate. n/t

[Nye Bevan]

8. Dear Lord, please let me prove to you that lots of money won't make me mean (nt)

[shcrane71]

9. Amen.

[Waiting For Everyman]

10. Other way around: the mean and unethical are more likely to get rich.

Without any scruples, any idiot can be rich. Don't believe me? Start a wacky new religion or somesuch, and promote it to gullible people by direct mail, and you'll be rich in no time.