Upper Classes more likely to break the law, lie, and cheat.

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“Occupying privileged positions in society has this natural psychological effect of insulating you from others,” said psychologist Paul Piff of the University of California, Berkeley. “You’re less likely to perceive the impact your behavior has on others.

''Upper- and lower-class individuals do not necessarily differ in terms of their capacity for unethical behavior, but rather in terms of their default tendencies toward it.''

“This work is important because it suggests that people often act unethically not because they are desperate and in the dumps, but because they feel entitled and want to get ahead.”


http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/income-and-ethics/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wiredscience+%28Blog+-+Wired+Science%29

These studies should be unsurprising to anyone who's lived a day of their lives, or who paid one iota of attention during the recent financial crash.

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Republicans are impervious to Facts, contemptuous of Experts, and much better at dog-piling on something they don't like to tear it down.

And yet you can't deny the basic fact that the wealth and immorality go hand in hand. The rich  over more people than the poor could ever dream to. Whether wealth makes you immoral or immorality lets you get wealthy (probably a combo of both) is unimportant.

Cheaters prosper. It's not a secret.

Yet Republicans' uncanny ability to ignore the truth threatens to blind the poor to how royally they're regularly getting screwed over by the rich.

South Park summed it up well

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/165712/how-do-i-reach-these-kids