[ExI] Effects of Money on personality

[efc at swisscows.email]

Hello Kelly,

Based on personal experience looking at myself and people around me I 
agree with what you are saying 100%. I've seen the same thing.

To add to that, I just finished reading my christmas present to myself, 
the capitalist manifesto by Johan Norberg 
(https://www.cato.org/books/capitalist-manifesto) and in the book Johan 
very convincingly shows that increased capitalism and democracy lead to 
richer countries which leads to generally happier people.

Best regards,
Daniel


On Sat, 6 Jan 2024, Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat 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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