Science Explains Why The Rich Are Calling Everyone Nazis
It turns out F. Scott Fitzgerald was right about the very rich: Science confirms that they really are different from you and me.
That difference has been on uncomfortable display lately, with billionaires declaring themselves an oppressed but superheroic minority “being pummeled” and “picked on,” despite their incomes having grown exponentially over the past few decades, leaving the rest of us far behind.
Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at the University of California-Berkeley, is not surprised by these rich-guy outbursts, which have included offensive comparisons to Nazi persecution. His research shows that large gobs of money often make people drift away from the reality the rest of us know. So if some of those millionaires and billionaires seem to be completely out-of-touch rich guys lacking sympathy for their fellow man, that's because they are.
“Extreme wealth in our lab makes people less compassionate, they care less about the suffering of others, they’re less empathetic,” he told the Huffington Post in an interview. “They tend to think that they have their tons of money because they have a stronger genetic profile. You put that together, and you get jackasses.”
Studies by Keltner and others have shown that rich people are less likely to share money with a partner or feel empathy for starving children. They are more likely to take candy from a baby.
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She was speaking before the ninth annual Congress on the Cause and Cure of War:
“How deadly stupid we are that we can study history and live through what we live through, and complacently allow the same causes to put us through the same thing again!”
Later that same year in a speech that was broadcast nationally, she lashed out against racial discrimination. In addition, she personally (and relentlessly) lobbied her husband to publicly endorse the Wagner-Costigan Anti-Lynching Bill. And, of course, most famously, in 1939, when the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let African-American contralto Marian Anderson perform at Constitution Hall, Eleanor publicly blasted the decision, resigned as a DAR member, and then arranged it so Anderson could give an open-air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The result was an unforgettable performance and a watershed event in 20th century American civil rights history.
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wholly inadequate to almost entirely inadequate, where's my victory drum?
$440 a week. Gross pay before withholding of course! We should all be in the streets forming spontaneous parades to exalt the awesomeness that is our savior and chief!
In fact, I'd suggest erecting a small plaster of paris statue on the mall for each taxpayer who pays $1m in taxes. The statues should be an inch taller for every additional million paid in taxes. Make it a competition!
The statues should look like this;
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