[ExI] Effects of Money on personality

[William Flynn Wallace]

I'd hate to utter any generalities here (as I would not know what I was
talking about),but having more money frees us from the tensions of just
scraping by.  Bottom line: we worry less - we can do more of what we want.

Perhaps that's a start?   bill w

On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 1:53 PM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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
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