Comment on LPT: always be an asshole so you don't miss great opportunities in life

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Tedesche@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not true. Money often does corrupt people, because money is very often the means to power, and power definitely corrupts most people over time.

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This got me thinking. What about people who get rich by luck, winning a lottery or something?

  They aren’t corrupt, but they’ll surely turn into assholes anyway, when they justify their luck to themselves and start doing asshole actions to guard their precious money. It’s the same thing with inheritance or getting lucky in business. They’ll talk about “self-made” success, even if they just bought a lottery ticket.

  In my opinion, money does corrupt people. It’s just through ordinary greed. Litteral corruption or cheating isn’t even necessary to see this effect that money has.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lottery players tend to have a specific personality type. Desperate or gambling addicts or generally bad with money. Regardless, winning a lottery is not a sustaining income plan. It’s fast easy money and the most responsible thing to do with it is pay off debts or other necessities. Not giving your second cousin that you haven’t seen the the family reunion 10 years ago a handout to get their business going isn’t really an asshole move.

    People who seemingly became asshole when they got rich were probably just asshole all along. You can sometimes see that attribute poking out from under someone’s mask when they aren’t careful. Ever native how if you criticize a rich person’s attitude, someone will chime in that they’re successful, so it’s ok?

    There are some rich people who either luck into money and remain humble and quite. Those people are more or less invisible in the news cycle. If you find one or two in your area and you do charity work, you can sometimes approach them for donations.

    There are also those who are successful small business owners and all of them that I’ve dealt with have some degree of asshole behavior, but that comes with the territory. If you let yourself be a pushover will bills or late deliveries, you lose. If they can compartmentalize, they’re fine, but I know some who can’t turn it off. You always feel like you’re walking on eggshells around them.

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    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It would be an interesting experiment to hand out a lot of money to random people and then track how they behave statistically. Everyone has the potential to be an asshole, but it requires a lot of money to prove that one is not.

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They already did that test with homeless people.

        They spent the money on necessities.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You don’t need to do asshole actions to guard your money.

    Someone with boundaries isn’t consequently an asshole.

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• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sadly true, also the reason that most c-levels are also assholes. They want power and money and being an asshole is damn near a requirement to do so.

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