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Why do some people try to humanize the wealthy and people in positions of power? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 1 week ago by flamiera@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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When it has been demonstrated over and over again, how little they think of anyone beneath them.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everyone human is human but psychopathy seems to favor wealth gain. But like woz would be one of the richest people in the world if he had not shared his apple stock with employees. Hes still rich though and a nice guy. His generosity though is why he is a millionaire and not a billionaire.

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

True.

Wealth filters psychopathy upward and you need to be at least little asshole to succeed in competition, but I think the broader influence is all the shit talk about deadbeats and freeloaders, that in long term dehumanizes the poor and creates notions that wealthy are better breed and there's nothing wrong, if the unfortunate die in the gutter. If they can't support themselves, maybe that's for the best. You can clearly see this shift even in many people that were once considered to be leftists.

Some kind of "Stanford experiment" kind of effect.

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean the effect of the Milgram experiment where people tend to follow authority as long as they think the authority is legit? And what the leading authority of the Stanford experiment has been accused of doing?

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Direct quite from wiki: "I had been conducting research for some years on deindividuation, vandalism and dehumanization that illustrated the ease with which ordinary people could be led to engage in anti-social acts by putting them in situations where they felt anonymous, or they could perceive of others in ways that made them less than human, as enemies or objects,"