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[quote=Anonymous]There are several factors that contribute to higher cheating among the wealthy.  First, the very wealthy have a heightened sense of their own importance and a feeling that the rules for "others" don't apply to them (the "Don't they know who I am?" problem).  Additionally, self-important people tend to pay less attention to rules around them in general because they focus on what's important to themselves and not following the rules of society (that sense of entitlement).  Second, as another PP pointed out, the wealthy tend to have the means to ignore smaller consequences.  A ticket that is 1/8 of your salary makes a much bigger impact than a ticket that is 1% of your salary and so the wealthy will noticed $50, $100 or $250 less than the poor and will feel that if they occasionally get hit with some fine, it happens.  A person of lesser means will do whatever they can to avoid that fine.  Last, there is a problem of feeling superior.  The wealthy typically feel they got where they were because they are better educated, smarter, or somehow better than the rest.  They often feel that they can get away with more either because they can outsmart the rules, or that they can talk their way out of problems, or somehow find a loophole that means those rules don't apply to them.  Not all of these apply to everyone, but at least one of these applies more often than not to wealthier members of society.  Wealthier members of society do not necessarily have one or more of these, but are more likely to have one of more of these and hence are more likely to break the rules than poorer members of society.

And none of this is new.  Every society has had this problem.[/quote]

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