I hope they’re able to bring them back up. Must be terrifying trapped on the sea floor. But also… seriously questioning the decision making process these supposedly super successful people go through.
Some More News, the podcast and YouTube show, has a great episode on this called “Are Rich people OK?”. Basically, they dive into all the research suggesting that getting rich basically breaks people’s brains. As relevant here, rich people tend to believe that they are rich because they are super smart, and that leads to them thinking any decisions they make must be correct because how could they be wrong?
The Some More News episode discusses this study which stuck with me
One experiment by psychologists at the University of California, Irvine, invited pairs of strangers to play a rigged Monopoly game where a coin flip designated one player rich and one poor. The rich players received twice as much money as their opponent to begin with; as they played the game, they got to roll two dice instead of one and move around the board twice as fast as their opponent; when they passed “Go,” they collected $200 to their opponent’s $100.
In various ways — through body language and boasting about their wealth, by smacking their pieces loudly against the playing board and making light of their opponents’ misfortune — the rich players began to act as though they deserved the good fortune that was largely a result of their lucky roll of the dice.
At the end of the game, when researchers asked the rich players why they had won the game, not one person attributed it to luck.
“They don’t talk about the flip of the coin. They talk about the things that they did. They talk about their acumen, they talk about their competencies, they talk about this decision or that decision,” that contributed to their win, Piff said in an interview with host David Brancaccio.
Basically hyper charged Main Character Syndrome, further fueled by being able to pay your way out of (almost) anything, and surrounding yourself with people that only say “Yes”.
It is probably an indirect criticism of the “just make better decisions and you’ll be rich” mentality that generally tries to put rich people on a pedestal for being geniuses who ‘figured it out’ and ‘read between the lines’ to get on top
if you’re saying that I’m engaging in a strawman, I am deriving at this based off of OP, which is before you entered the conversation, and noone was assigning this opinion to you, but it’s definitely a thing I’ve encountered in the wilds myself, so I felt I could see what OP meant with their message
I hope they’re able to bring them back up. Must be terrifying trapped on the sea floor. But also… seriously questioning the decision making process these supposedly super successful people go through.
Some More News, the podcast and YouTube show, has a great episode on this called “Are Rich people OK?”. Basically, they dive into all the research suggesting that getting rich basically breaks people’s brains. As relevant here, rich people tend to believe that they are rich because they are super smart, and that leads to them thinking any decisions they make must be correct because how could they be wrong?
The Some More News episode discusses this study which stuck with me
Basically hyper charged Main Character Syndrome, further fueled by being able to pay your way out of (almost) anything, and surrounding yourself with people that only say “Yes”.
Q:“Should I do this?” A:“I WANT TO DO IT, I’M DOING IT”
Edit: sweet jesus, it was a joke
Oh wow, almost like every single mammal on the planet. What evil shits, amirite? How dare they do things that are exciting and available to them.
It’s more about them getting into a slapdash deathisphere because as rich people they’re rarely exposed to real risk.
What are you even saying? Humans do dumb shit, rich or poor.
It is probably an indirect criticism of the “just make better decisions and you’ll be rich” mentality that generally tries to put rich people on a pedestal for being geniuses who ‘figured it out’ and ‘read between the lines’ to get on top
Does anyone here know what a straw man is?
if you’re saying that I’m engaging in a strawman, I am deriving at this based off of OP, which is before you entered the conversation, and noone was assigning this opinion to you, but it’s definitely a thing I’ve encountered in the wilds myself, so I felt I could see what OP meant with their message