Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoOr those were previously just assholes without money? Nice people who win the lottery likely don’t stay rich for long because they use that money to help people they know.
leftascenter@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 weeks ago
One of several studies:
https://docs.iza.org/dp7934.pdf
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So I read the study, first of all the paper aknowledges that there’s a several point swing in voting preference between non winners and people who won less than £500 which strongly implies people who play the lottery are more likely to vote right wing to begin with. Secondly even for large wins the swing was only around 18%. At worst money does not make everyone a bad person, more like 1/5 people.
leftascenter@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 weeks ago
So you read one study, and didn’t know social science are about mean changes overe a population and not absolute changes on individuals.
Good start, now I’ll let you dig some more on the issue.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It outright says:
“13% of non-winners switch to favour the right-wing. By contrast, nearly 18% of the winners who get more than 500 pounds switch to the right-wing party”
That is a description of induviduals, 18% of people become more right wing, not 100% of people become 18% more right wing.