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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][i]Last year, Paul Piff, a psychologist at UC Berkeley, published research that correlated wealth with an increase in unethical behavior: “While having money doesn’t necessarily make anybody anything,” Piff later told New York magazine, “the rich are way more likely to prioritize their own self-interests above the interests of other people.” They are, he continued, “more likely to exhibit characteristics that we would stereotypically associate with, say, assholes.” Colorful statements aside, Piff’s research on the giving habits of different social classes—while not directly refuting the asshole theory—suggests that other, more complex factors are at work. In a series of controlled experiments, lower-income people and people who identified themselves as being on a relatively low social rung were consistently more generous with limited goods than upper-class participants were.* [/i]

Food for thought, for some.

*The quote is from an article in The Atlantic about how people in the bottom 20% of earners donate a higher percentage (3.2%) of their income to charity than the top 20% donate from theirs (1.3%).[/quote]

We see this played out on this board all the time. So many of the parents here have a true inability to see beyond their own desires, and have a laundry list of reasons why its perfectly okay for them to behave this way. They don't see their nannies as worthwhile people, worthy of the same level of respect as anyone else, but rather a tool they can use to suit their whims.  Like the MB who is going on an extra vacation this year and wants to know if she make nanny work extra hours to make up for it, and worse yet the MBs who said yeah sure! Or just take it from her "bonus" *wink* *wink*. [/quote]

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