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- Why Are Rich People So Mean? (2019) https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-rich-people-so-mean/ 5 comments
- Why Are Rich People So Mean? https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-rich-people-so-mean/ 2 comments
- Why Are Rich People So Mean? https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-rich-people-so-mean/ 7 comments
- Why Are Rich People So Mean? https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-rich-people-so-mean/ 3 comments
- White House proposal to cap student loans would mean only rich people can afford elite schooling https://thinkprogress.org/white-house-proposal-to-cap-student-loans-would-hurt-the-poor-209a5d18c976/ 1035 comments politics
- Dinosaur skeleton auctions mean that important fossils are going to rich people instead of museums https://qz.com/1295534/dinosaur-skeleton-auctions-mean-that-important-fossils-are-going-to-rich-people-instead-of-museums/ 195 comments science
- Undoing the ‘deep state’ means Trump would undo over a century of progress in building a federal government for the people and not just for rich white men https://theconversation.com/undoing-the-deep-state-means-trump-would-undo-over-a-century-of-progress-in-building-a-federal-government-for-the-people-and-not-just-for-rich-white-men-234421 25 comments politics
- "Nationalism of decline is a means of manipulating people to aid in their own impoverishment for the benefit of the rich" -Jeff McMahan (Oxford) on history, idealism, and nationalism. https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/how-britain-and-us-became-trapped-nationalism-decline 11 comments philosophy
- "Nationalism of decline is a means of manipulating people to aid in their own impoverishment for the benefit of the rich" -Jeff McMahan (Oxford) on history, idealism, and nationalism. https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/how-britain-and-us-became-trapped-nationalism-decline 230 comments philosophy
- I believe there is always an undeclared war on poor people all over the world and the establishment’s goal is to use any means violent, covert, or criminal to make the poor, poorer; the rich, richer; http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/29220 3 comments politics
- "We are talking about people who are already fantastically rich. And who, despite this, are absolutely hell-bent on getting richer, even if that means depriving hundreds of millions of people in the American middle class of their middle classness. Are they not essentially sociopathic?" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/05-0 1112 comments politics
- [Katz] Call people around the league about LaVine and they respond… with a shrug. If I got $39M every time someone put on a sheepish tone and said, “I mean, someone will get him,” passively removing their team from the situation, I’d be a rich man, but I wouldn’t be as rich as LaVine. https://theathletic.com/5071208/2023/11/17/knicks-trade-bulls-zach-lavine 120 comments nba
- The rich are easily offended by being treated unfairly: Three studies show that the wealthy, or even people who temporarily perceive themselves to be wealthy, are more likely to reject an offer that they consider unfair, even if it means that they themselves miss out. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0022103117300318 48 comments science
- How Mitt Romney Got Rich Destroying American Jobs and Promoting Sweatshop Capitalism: Romney-style capitalism means misery for working people and big money for the 1 percent. http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-mitt-romney-got-rich-destroying-american-jobs-and-promoting-sweatshop-capitalism?paging=off 19 comments politics
- Rich People are Mean -- "The research revealed that upper-class individuals are more likely to break the law while driving, exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies, take valued goods from others, lie in a negotiation, cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120307145432.htm 102 comments science
- "Costa Rica, which means Rich Coast, constitutionally abolished its army permanently in 1949." and they are said, reddit, to be the happiest people on the planet and they live longer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/costa_rica 38 comments reddit.com
- So you're telling me that we pay for social security from our salaries. This creates a fund, which contributes to times of need, like illnesses or retirement. The GOP has cut taxes so much for rich people, they now plan to raid those funds? Is that not left? Is that what cut social security means? https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/business/wp/2018/06/19/house-gop-plan-would-cut-medicare-social-security-to-balance-budget/ 14 comments politics