[ExI] Effects of Money on personality

[Kelly Anderson]

Some thoughts peripherally related to the IQ discussion, but which
seemed different enough to warrant its own thread.

I have noticed in my life experience that when people get money, they
become freer to be themselves. Assholes will become even bigger
assholes. Generous people become more generous. Kind people become
more kind. Hermits go deeper into themselves and withdraw from society
even harder. Hoarders rent more storage units. And so forth.

So, this is either a skewed view based on unreliable personal
experience, or is perhaps something akin to a tautology. Is this
thought even worthy of a comment or a study? Has anyone looked at this
particular point that you know of?

I've noticed the effect in myself as I went from middle class to rich
to poor to climbing out into the middle class again on my way,
hopefully, to being more myself in the future. Is this a common
personal experience?

-Kelly