Psychology studies suggest rising wealth means more jerks

[liberalhistorian]

1. LOL, they needed to spend

money on a study to discover that? It's not like that hasn't been the way of history and societies for the past, oh, say, six or seven thousand years or so. LOL.

That's what makes rich people, particularly families, who do NOT do that and who are leftist or close to it, all the more remarkable. I'm thinking of the Kennedys, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt (while they were sixth cousins, her side, the Theodore Roosevelt branch, had as much money as Franklin's), Mark Dayton, Warren Buffet, etc. And there are plenty of people who grew up poor who are complete hateful stomp-on-the-poor jerks, too, like Saint Ronnie of Raygun, John "oompa loompa" Boehner, etc. It's not entirely black and white.

But I think we will, unfortunately, see more of the "jerkiness" and its ugly consequences with the increasing wealth gap and ever-rising income inequality.