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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP above.  I'll offer my evidence first:

How Wealth Reduces Compassion

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/[/quote]

I'm the PP you were replying to. This thread just took a turn for the crazy. Unfortunately I am not as well researched as those who are consumed by their irrational views of the world. You asked for evidence, and then proceed to offer your own, which amounts to narrowly focused analysis based on cherry picked data segments. We are talking about the general, not the few.

How do we know that there's a positive correlation between money/education and integrity/ethics? Aside from rational logical deduction, the broad data demonstrates this by showing that higher income and better education leads to less crime. There are numerous analysis showing this data, here's just one after a quick Google search:

http://web.utk.edu/~leon/stat571/Nightingale/Florence%20Nightingale%20Museum%20Web%20Site_files/small.htm

With regards to charity, most of the studies out there address the issue by performing the analysis on a percent-of-income basis, rather than dollar basis. I suppose that's fair enough. Here's an article offering some explanations on why:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/katiasavchuk/2014/10/06/wealthy-americans-are-giving-less-of-their-incomes-to-charity-while-poor-are-donating-more/

I would also add that that people in higher income brackets pay a far higher tax burden, which in turn provides much of the government benefits and services enjoyed disproportionately by those who have lower income. [/quote]

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