Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve?

Nemo@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• devolution@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I work in child welfare. I routinely do.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Selection bias.

    You typically only interact with people who put their children at risk. Someone who doesn’t give a shit about their kids is someone who lacks empathy.

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    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This sounds like a handful of people I know that believe food stamp programs are flawed and destructive to society. They same a handful of routine abusers and applied that as the norm. 9 people used the stamps appropriately and faded into a nonexistent memory, but the one person that returned food for fash and bought cigarettes and lottery tickets each time was the face they remembered

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  • Carrolade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Then you should hopefully already understand the multiple reasons anecdotal evidence is a poor way of trying to understand large groups of people, which is why we use statistical studies.

    The people specifically in your community, engaging with welfare resources, are in no way an accurately representative sample of a larger social class in all areas. Your specific region likely has unique cultural factors at play. The subset of people engaging with welfare have unique economic factors.

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  • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I honestly think how we treat the service industry is how many people end up treating their kids.

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  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t let the random deter you online. The online crowd are very out of touch

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’d like to point out that Melvin is part of the online crowd.

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      • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh you got me. You’re right. People online are very in touch with reality

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• mke_geek@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve seen lots of lower income people who appear to lack empathy based on their actions.

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  • Nemo@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think you’ll find that at every level. It’s certainly very prevalent anong middle-class suburbanites.

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