Numerous other studies have been done that also show exactly this, to the point that those with extreme wealth start to lose their ability to read normal social facial cues. There are numerous studies that show different aspects of this. Here's a few: *_Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior_* Piff, et. al. 2012. - *_Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy_* Krauss, et. al.. 2010 - *_False Consciousness or Class Awareness? Local Income Inequality, Personal Economic Position, and Belief in American Meritocracy_* Newman, et. al. 2015
Now, With that being said. Can you explain to me who did the search, paid? I'll be wiling to bet the books or people you see as your guide have a motive. Not to mention most are steered to promote capitalism.
@@MikenNinginThai I'm not sure I understand your comment. Anyone who does anything has a motive. In this case, it depends on whether the motive emphasizes individual achievement at the expense of others or not. Also, it seems to me that capitalism offers opportunities for the few to win big at the expense of the many. The employer-employee relationship lies at the heart of capitalism; not unlike the master-slave relationship in terms of decision-making and control.
There are also many publications of peer reviewed studies that show that the higher level of wealth, the less empathy. The wealth and power literally changes the way the brain functions. Also with this, when you have wealth and power, the less you can relate to anyone whom is poor. So you think everyone has money.
@@RussCR5187 capitalism fails without willing slaves. Democarcy and capitalism can not coexist. The US is and always was just a facade of democarcy. Unregulated capitalism is socialism for the wealthy.
Every case of hoarding is looked as a disgusting, bad behavior EXCEPT wealth hoarding... don't forget the top 1% owns 40% of our nation's wealth while the bottom 60% of Americans own barely 1%
If hoarding money were looked on with the same disgust that other forms of hoarding is the borders would begin to feel the same sense of shame other hoarders do things might change. As long as people look up to, admire and try to emulate the wealthy those with extreme wealth will continue to feel good about it.
"I'm so good at Monopoly. Dont like losing? Get gud. Read my book on how to win at Monopoly." - the guy who started the game with $10 billion & matching hotels on Boardwalk & Park Place.
James 1:11 For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business. It's all about the quality of the soul(alive/dead) if we lose our soul (our own unique personality, character, feelings, imagination) then we are as good as dead(zombie mode) Matthew 16:26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? Matthew 7:14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. What is the narrow path? Hint: It is a lifestyle different from the path of modern lifestyle. Seek and you shall find it.
When I went from doing well to being impoverished by medical bills for a life threatening and very expensive illness it changed me in that I now feel shame around my fellow humans but my strong empathetic connection with horses grew stronger but I have severe difficulty connecting with people, especially since I can no longer speak combined with the shame I now feel. Before I had a good amount of empathy with humans too. Maybe too much for my own good. That might have changed if I had ever been wealthy rather than well off but I never had a desire for great wealth. Who wants to waste their time worrying about what to do with their excess money? I never suspected that health insurance agencies made their money denying care. I guess that's what comes of having too much. So much your business model is to pay people to tell you you can't have what you paid for even if it kills you in order that you can have more yet lose no sleep over it and feel proud when you look in the mirror because you won the rigged Monopoly game while those who do the job of denying care lose sleep, can't look in the mirror and burn out quickly so they have to be constantly replaced. That's my rant about capitalism for the day.
An evenly calibrated moral compass is either afforded, or it isn't. Many can't afford to be concerned about anyone else's problems but their own, while many others could afford to solve everyone else's problems.
This is really sad. Wealth have caused these people to lose their humanity. What's really sad is many of these rich people were once poor themselves? You can feel this coldness in our society today and many of these people are two paychecks from being homeless themselves. Nobody today has a right, rich or poor, to look down on anyone. We all need to take care of our neighbors.
I believe worth and worthiness are two very different things. Every person is born, lives, and dies owning one unit of worthiness as a human being. Some people are born, live, and die owning enormous amounts of wealth. Society often measures their value in terms of net worth instead of worthiness as a human being. I think the economic system we live in encourages this kind of valuing.
People create systems, with one of them being capitalism. If we don't start at the point of people and the values with which they build new systems or maintain existing ones, then whatever replaces capitalism will still come with the same outcomes.
Capitalism definitely has a major part in it, but that is just the most recent form of economic policy. There were many that came before that did the same exploitation of working people. The organic intellectuals as Gromshki said, are the reinforcement of old ideas rather than creating a new system.
Yet some of the worst inhumanities were done by systems that weren't capitalist. Capitalism is merely a tool to create resources and wealth. It's how the individuals and groups utilize those tools , these systems, that matter. Marx spoke of a system that freed the poor from another system. His heirs have been implementing that system since the founding of the Soviet Union in the late 1910s. How has that gone? There are many wrong things about capitalism. But, again: Is it the tool that does the harm, or the users of that tool?
@@ashaide you gotta stay consistent. If the capitalist system is a tool and outcomes depend on the user than the system Marx proposed and used by the USSR (as you brought up) must have also had outcomes that have depended more on the users than the tool (system) itself. I agree partially with you in that systems are tools but it seems you are trying to put the socialist and communist system as an exception to your argument of how users use tools as more important.
Tolstoy addresses this in “War and Peace,” an enlightening, if not difficult, book to read. I took a summer to do so (15 pp. per day, 90 days). It changed my outlook on many things. Every time he uses the word “lackey” I smile and think of myself.
A very interesting question! I believe it depends on the individuals awareness and perception of the world. Even if the majority won't follow the way of giving and contribution, there are some out there who give so much to the people and environment. Of course we all have a need for certainty and for most that means to have a certain amount of wealth (which is different for each individual). Many dream of financial freedom and don't even know how much they would need to have it. (Which is often way less than people think) But usually the more we have, the more we are afraid to loose. But I believe if we all would focus more of giving, sharing and living in alignment with the people and the world around us, we can truly set ourselves free and have an abundant, flourishing life.
I agree with your goal, but am not sure if it's achievable within the system we have now. I believe many of the billionaires who are using their money to buy influence and power are narcissistic sociopaths who have no interest in becoming the kind of giving, caring people we would like them to be.
@@RussCR5187 well yea there will always be someone going another path and choosing another direction, but that's okay. It even offers a different perspective to consider. As long as the majority focuses on a better future for themselves and their surroundings we are going to be on a good way.
@@TrinityGrowthUA-cam What I actually see happening right now is that more and more people are slipping into the zone of financial uncertainty, which as you say means they cannot focus on giving, sharing, and living in alignment with others. The characteristics people seem to have in common at the moment are anger and frustration, rather than compassion and sharing. We have many different "tribes" at war with each other, unwilling to compromise or even to consider alternative ideas. A cynic would say that "we the people" have been divided and conquered. In other words, we seem to be going backwards.
I don't blame the rich being out of touch with the reality of the majority of people, we all adapt and react to the environment around us, just as I, your average joe am out of touch with what those in third world countries go through. What I have a problem with is leaders who clearly lack any of the qualities needed for the job being allowed into power. We need some accountability within a merit based system because atm it seems any dumb ass can and does get into politics.
It's not the competition, that's the results. The problem is the money itself, which the players try to monopolize, to take out the other players, making one the monopoly GOD. SQUIRRELS DON'T PAY RENT AND THE EXPERTS ARE BAFFLED ? The solution is within the previous question.
Money doesn't change people. Is just a ramp to amplify their attitude. Assholes become bigger Assholes, nice people become nicer. The only problem is that usually assholes become richer, by stepping on everybody's heads.
Monopoly was literally created to show how wealth tends inevitably to polarize. Look it up on Wikipedia. Think about it: "You have to spend money to make money." So wealth attracts wealth, like a black hole. The problem isn't that the super-rich are insufficiently charitable, the problem is that they are literally thieves and exploiters gaming a defective system. Look up Henry George. Watch a short YT video called "Michael Hudson on the Economy and Neofeudalism". And this is all 'capitalist' theory, I'm not even mentioning Marx here.
I think this video would be much more effective if it showed the inequality first, then the people who are helping others less fortunate, and ended with the rich enjoying themselves. Starting with rich people enjoying themselves is bound to be counterproductive, because a lot of people have been seduced by the promotion of this way of life into thinking that achieving it is a matter of effort etc. So by decrying it, you're giving an opinion without showing the reasons for it, and that could well put their backs up.
I appreciate the feedback Elizabeth. The idea was to ask the viewer to go down an empathic process initially, but I can see how it could also work the other way around. We thought this way might grab more people's attention. But you may be right about that. Thanks for the feedbak.
@@SustainableHuman I am now watching it the second time. What a great way to get up on a Sunday morning with something deep to make me think. Much love and respect
"Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity." - Paul Piff
Numerous other studies have been done that also show exactly this, to the point that those with extreme wealth start to lose their ability to read normal social facial cues. There are numerous studies that show different aspects of this. Here's a few: *_Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior_* Piff, et. al. 2012. - *_Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy_* Krauss, et. al.. 2010 - *_False Consciousness or Class Awareness? Local Income Inequality, Personal Economic Position, and Belief in American Meritocracy_* Newman, et. al. 2015
Now, With that being said. Can you explain to me who did the search, paid? I'll be wiling to bet the books or people you see as your guide have a motive. Not to mention most are steered to promote capitalism.
@@MikenNinginThai probably true, but your comment also reveals your own cynicism. Have an empty mind and heart.
@@MikenNinginThai I'm not sure I understand your comment. Anyone who does anything has a motive. In this case, it depends on whether the motive emphasizes individual achievement at the expense of others or not. Also, it seems to me that capitalism offers opportunities for the few to win big at the expense of the many. The employer-employee relationship lies at the heart of capitalism; not unlike the master-slave relationship in terms of decision-making and control.
There are also many publications of peer reviewed studies that show that the higher level of wealth, the less empathy. The wealth and power literally changes the way the brain functions. Also with this, when you have wealth and power, the less you can relate to anyone whom is poor. So you think everyone has money.
@@RussCR5187 capitalism fails without willing slaves. Democarcy and capitalism can not coexist. The US is and always was just a facade of democarcy. Unregulated capitalism is socialism for the wealthy.
Every case of hoarding is looked as a disgusting, bad behavior EXCEPT wealth hoarding... don't forget the top 1% owns 40% of our nation's wealth while the bottom 60% of Americans own barely 1%
And the wealthy top 1% have STOLEN $50 TRILLION from the Working class
If hoarding money were looked on with the same disgust that other forms of hoarding is the borders would begin to feel the same sense of shame other hoarders do things might change. As long as people look up to, admire and try to emulate the wealthy those with extreme wealth will continue to feel good about it.
@@leealexander3507 I wonder how many people really do admire them.
Hear hear!
"I'm so good at Monopoly. Dont like losing? Get gud. Read my book on how to win at Monopoly." - the guy who started the game with $10 billion & matching hotels on Boardwalk & Park Place.
There's nothing worse than people with wealth in small towns. They really think they're something and hunger for attention.
they lose touch with the common folk and live shielded lives
James 1:11
For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.
It's all about the quality of the soul(alive/dead) if we lose our soul (our own unique personality, character, feelings, imagination) then we are as good as dead(zombie mode)
Matthew 16:26
What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
Matthew 7:14
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
What is the narrow path?
Hint: It is a lifestyle different from the path of modern lifestyle. Seek and you shall find it.
When I went from doing well to being impoverished by medical bills for a life threatening and very expensive illness it changed me in that I now feel shame around my fellow humans but my strong empathetic connection with horses grew stronger but I have severe difficulty connecting with people, especially since I can no longer speak combined with the shame I now feel. Before I had a good amount of empathy with humans too. Maybe too much for my own good. That might have changed if I had ever been wealthy rather than well off but I never had a desire for great wealth. Who wants to waste their time worrying about what to do with their excess money? I never suspected that health insurance agencies made their money denying care. I guess that's what comes of having too much. So much your business model is to pay people to tell you you can't have what you paid for even if it kills you in order that you can have more yet lose no sleep over it and feel proud when you look in the mirror because you won the rigged Monopoly game while those who do the job of denying care lose sleep, can't look in the mirror and burn out quickly so they have to be constantly replaced. That's my rant about capitalism for the day.
Thank you for making this video, and putting words to this problem so many people are seeing and feeling. We are our brother's keeper.
We all have these negative traits, but power exposes it
An evenly calibrated moral compass is either afforded, or it isn't.
Many can't afford to be concerned about anyone else's problems but their own, while many others could afford to solve everyone else's problems.
3:00 That's actually where I am in Los Angeles near Westwood I drive by that.
Excellent. I cannot add any words that could successfully clarify or expand upon the topics so incitefully presented by the author of the video.
This is really sad. Wealth have caused these people to lose their humanity. What's really sad is many of these rich people were once poor themselves? You can feel this coldness in our society today and many of these people are two paychecks from being homeless themselves. Nobody today has a right, rich or poor, to look down on anyone. We all need to take care of our neighbors.
I believe worth and worthiness are two very different things. Every person is born, lives, and dies owning one unit of worthiness as a human being. Some people are born, live, and die owning enormous amounts of wealth. Society often measures their value in terms of net worth instead of worthiness as a human being. I think the economic system we live in encourages this kind of valuing.
@@RussCR5187 I can agree with that.
People aren't the problem ,the system is, capitalism must be done away with.
It fosters greed and corruption.
People create systems, with one of them being capitalism. If we don't start at the point of people and the values with which they build new systems or maintain existing ones, then whatever replaces capitalism will still come with the same outcomes.
Capitalism definitely has a major part in it, but that is just the most recent form of economic policy. There were many that came before that did the same exploitation of working people. The organic intellectuals as Gromshki said, are the reinforcement of old ideas rather than creating a new system.
Yet some of the worst inhumanities were done by systems that weren't capitalist.
Capitalism is merely a tool to create resources and wealth. It's how the individuals and groups utilize those tools , these systems, that matter.
Marx spoke of a system that freed the poor from another system. His heirs have been implementing that system since the founding of the Soviet Union in the late 1910s. How has that gone?
There are many wrong things about capitalism. But, again:
Is it the tool that does the harm, or the users of that tool?
@@ashaide you gotta stay consistent. If the capitalist system is a tool and outcomes depend on the user than the system Marx proposed and used by the USSR (as you brought up) must have also had outcomes that have depended more on the users than the tool (system) itself. I agree partially with you in that systems are tools but it seems you are trying to put the socialist and communist system as an exception to your argument of how users use tools as more important.
This must get more views
Music for closing credits? Artist/s name please
remember your roots
Tolstoy addresses this in “War and Peace,” an enlightening, if not difficult, book to read. I took a summer to do so (15 pp. per day, 90 days). It changed my outlook on many things. Every time he uses the word “lackey” I smile and think of myself.
A very interesting question! I believe it depends on the individuals awareness and perception of the world.
Even if the majority won't follow the way of giving and contribution, there are some out there who give so much to the people and environment.
Of course we all have a need for certainty and for most that means to have a certain amount of wealth (which is different for each individual). Many dream of financial freedom and don't even know how much they would need to have it. (Which is often way less than people think)
But usually the more we have, the more we are afraid to loose.
But I believe if we all would focus more of giving, sharing and living in alignment with the people and the world around us, we can truly set ourselves free and have an abundant, flourishing life.
I agree with your goal, but am not sure if it's achievable within the system we have now. I believe many of the billionaires who are using their money to buy influence and power are narcissistic sociopaths who have no interest in becoming the kind of giving, caring people we would like them to be.
@@RussCR5187 well yea there will always be someone going another path and choosing another direction, but that's okay.
It even offers a different perspective to consider.
As long as the majority focuses on a better future for themselves and their surroundings we are going to be on a good way.
@@TrinityGrowthUA-cam What I actually see happening right now is that more and more people are slipping into the zone of financial uncertainty, which as you say means they cannot focus on giving, sharing, and living in alignment with others. The characteristics people seem to have in common at the moment are anger and frustration, rather than compassion and sharing. We have many different "tribes" at war with each other, unwilling to compromise or even to consider alternative ideas. A cynic would say that "we the people" have been divided and conquered. In other words, we seem to be going backwards.
Cute. I prefer pitchforks though.
Guillotines are nice too.
I don't blame the rich being out of touch with the reality of the majority of people, we all adapt and react to the environment around us, just as I, your average joe am out of touch with what those in third world countries go through. What I have a problem with is leaders who clearly lack any of the qualities needed for the job being allowed into power. We need some accountability within a merit based system because atm it seems any dumb ass can and does get into politics.
I tried playing Monopoly but it bored me so I never could pay attention. It had property but no horses to put on it so what good was it?
It's not the competition, that's the results. The problem is the money itself, which the players try to monopolize, to take out the other players, making one the monopoly GOD.
SQUIRRELS DON'T PAY RENT AND THE EXPERTS ARE BAFFLED ?
The solution is within the previous question.
Money doesn't change people. Is just a ramp to amplify their attitude. Assholes become bigger Assholes, nice people become nicer. The only problem is that usually assholes become richer, by stepping on everybody's heads.
Monopoly was literally created to show how wealth tends inevitably to polarize. Look it up on Wikipedia. Think about it: "You have to spend money to make money." So wealth attracts wealth, like a black hole. The problem isn't that the super-rich are insufficiently charitable, the problem is that they are literally thieves and exploiters gaming a defective system. Look up Henry George. Watch a short YT video called "Michael Hudson on the Economy and Neofeudalism". And this is all 'capitalist' theory, I'm not even mentioning Marx here.
I think this video would be much more effective if it showed the inequality first, then the people who are helping others less fortunate, and ended with the rich enjoying themselves. Starting with rich people enjoying themselves is bound to be counterproductive, because a lot of people have been seduced by the promotion of this way of life into thinking that achieving it is a matter of effort etc. So by decrying it, you're giving an opinion without showing the reasons for it, and that could well put their backs up.
I appreciate the feedback Elizabeth. The idea was to ask the viewer to go down an empathic process initially, but I can see how it could also work the other way around. We thought this way might grab more people's attention. But you may be right about that. Thanks for the feedbak.
@@SustainableHuman I am now watching it the second time. What a great way to get up on a Sunday morning with something deep to make me think. Much love and respect
@@WiseandVegan I am there and I do share! Thank you for waking me up.
All I got to say is that we the "poor" must act on our own self interest instead of enriching the rich. Rampage the movie is what I'm talking about.
Thanks for sharing
I could use a little wealth !
Lost everything this past
year . Two months from
living in a car again now ..crazy..
It usually reveals the inner prick.
Usually wealthier people help out the poor to feed their own pride.
Really great.
No such thing as ethical capitalism!
Money makes every living thing on earth suffer. It's the devil's masterpiece.
I was so good at talking ( winning people over with words) before I got very rich.
Im thinking of the Trump family.
And Clinton's and bushes and all the trust fund kids in the future who end up running the country.
This ended up as vague pablum.
The more money I have, the more I give away to charity. I’ve learned how to share.
That's beautiful! Thank you for your contribution ♥️
The only word the rich understand is “more.”
Tell shwabb and davos
Bull crap.