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There's no evidence that 'lower class' people are motivated to charity from superior ethics. They're just as likely to give to the less fortunate in order to reinforce a belief that they're...not less fortunate. Wealthy people wouldn't need to do that.

that people that don't believe in helping others whatsoever are the most likely to rise to the top.

Viewing every turned back as a target for a knife does tend to help people climb the ladder.

Edited to add: By which I mean they could have the correlation backwards. It isn't more money that makes you a jerk, but being a jerk makes you more likely to have more money.

Most 'rise to the top' in the delivery room

Being one who has been poor a good part of my life and have lived around the poor a good part of my life, I have a completely different perspective. Poor people have more empathy for those who are doing without as they themselves have done without. When they see an opportunity to help someone in need, being that it's rare that they can help someone, they're more than happy to be able to alleviate suffering and want when/where they can. I know. I've seen it. I've lived it.

The wealthy don't see poor people -- they look past them and rarely get involved then make excuses for their lack of charity. Poor people are more prone to share whatever little resources they have just because they know and have lived want.

In either case, (your argument or mine) the wealthier person has no reason to give, because that condition does not apply to them.

so much as a need to feel secure

But like I said, the study is weird

Got ya

Well the study is bizarre in any case

I don't see where 'ethics' are involved but perhaps the author needed a different term

a semi-civilized place to live for granted. As if life were a long line and your place in it is determined by a dollar ($) sign and a long stream of numbers.

Not all. But most.

And Honore de Balzac said:

"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account
is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly
executed."

world as threats to their wealth. it's sad and disgusting.

that the rules apply to them but are meant for others. Those rulez designed to facilitate the flow of capital upward are a good example.

Poor people are more generous and compassionate.

It doesn't really address whether the poor are more ethical than wealthy people. Charity is only one aspect of ethics.

some of the best, most giving, most loving people i've ever met don't have a pot to piss in.

but they'd give you the shirt off their back,