We Already Knew the Rich Are Fucked Up in the Head,

so this study comes as no surprise.

Households with 90k income are nothing remotely like the Koch brothers, Gates, and their ilk.

They might as well live on another planet because their lives are totally different from almost everybody else.

I always knew their attitudes stunk. They think they are better because they have more money, that they are smarter, more capable, and all of that other shit that isn't true.

A "self-made" person does NOT exist. Period.

Unlike the rich, lower class people have to depend on others for survival, Keltner argued. So they learn “prosocial behaviors.” They read people better, empathize more with others, and they give more to those in need.

That’s the moral of Capra movies like “You Can’t Take It With You,” in which a plutocrat comes to learn the value of community and family. But Keltner, author of the book “Born To Be Good: The Science of A Meaningful Life,” doesn’t rely on sentiment to make his case.

He points to his own research and that of others. For example, lower class subjects are better at deciphering the emotions of people in photographs than are rich people.

A lot of them aren't all there in the head, as they got rich through inheritance, marriage, and just plain luck of being at the right place at the right time.

After all, there are hundreds of thousands of people who worked far harder than they did and never got rich.