{"id":159,"date":"2025-04-06T21:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodprax.is\/streams\/2025\/04\/06\/the-answer-may-have-something-to-do-with-how-wealth-and-abundance-give-us-a-sense-of-freedom-and-independence-from-others-the-less-we-have-to-rely-on-others-the-less-we-may-care-abo\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T21:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:25:16","slug":"the-answer-may-have-something-to-do-with-how-wealth-and-abundance-give-us-a-sense-of-freedom-and-independence-from-others-the-less-we-have-to-rely-on-others-the-less-we-may-care-abo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodprax.is\/streams\/2025\/04\/06\/the-answer-may-have-something-to-do-with-how-wealth-and-abundance-give-us-a-sense-of-freedom-and-independence-from-others-the-less-we-have-to-rely-on-others-the-less-we-may-care-abo\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-04-06T21:25:16.000Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(\u2026)\u00a0the answer may have something to do with how wealth and abundance give us a sense of freedom and independence from others. The less we have to rely on others, the less we may care about their feelings. This leads us towards being more self-focused. Another reason has to do with our attitudes towards greed. Like Gordon Gekko, upper-class people may be more likely to endorse the idea that \u201cgreed is good.\u201d Piff and his colleagues found that wealthier people are more likely to agree with statements that greed is justified, beneficial, and morally defensible. These attitudes ended up predicting participants\u2019 likelihood of engaging in unethical behavior.<\/p>\n<p>source: https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-wealth-reduces-compassion\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(\u2026)\u00a0the answer may have something to do with how wealth and abundance give us a sense of freedom and independence from others. The less we have to rely on others, the less we may care about their feelings. This leads us towards being more self-focused. Another reason has to do with our attitudes towards greed. Like Gordon Gekko, upper-class people may be more likely to endorse the idea that \u201cgreed is good.\u201d Piff and his colleagues found that wealthier people are more likely to agree with statements that greed is justified, beneficial, and morally defensible. These attitudes ended up predicting participants\u2019 likelihood of engaging in unethical behavior.<\/p>\n<p>source: https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-wealth-reduces-compassion\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodprax.is\/streams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodprax.is\/streams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodprax.is\/streams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodprax.is\/streams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodprax.is\/streams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodprax.is\/streams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodprax.is\/streams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodprax.is\/streams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodprax.is\/streams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}