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| ▲ | zdragnar an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | If we're casting aspersions, I guess based on my personal experiences of people in poverty, lower, middle and upper classes, then > most people into assholes might just be a you problem. Get out and meet more people, and if you're still surrounded by assholes, then the real asshole is probably you. People are people everywhere. Money really doesn't change that as much as you're implying. | | |
| ▲ | pydry an hour ago | parent [-] | | you seem weirdly committed to defending the billionaire class. most people probably do have the capacity to be raging assholes but society doesn't indulge their every whim and prejudice or stroke their ego constantly. so they aren't. |
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| ▲ | epistasis an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Power, including financial power, reveals who people really are without constraints. President Johnson has to be my favorite example of this, he spent a political career kowtowing to racists, enforcing racism where he needed to in order to acquire power, and then when full power was finally thrust on him by JFK's assassination, he flips and pushes through key legislation from the Civil Rights Movement. I certainly didn't put forward an idea that having money makes people less of an asshole. Somebody who gives it away in a non-assholish way certainly makes them less of an asshole. Or is your contention that anybody with money is an asshole, without exception? | | |
| ▲ | joquarky 43 minutes ago | parent [-] | | At the very least, I would question the motive of people who defend billionaires. | | |
| ▲ | epistasis 23 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Who do you believe is doing this? The implication, I guess, would be me, but I wasn't talking about strictly "billionaires". What is the wealth cutoff here, and how? |
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