When the economy crashes it's great if you are rich.
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When the economy crashes it's great if you are rich. You can buy companies and stock. You don't have to pay as much for labor because workers are desperate.
Granted this is a very short term thing. In the long run, it is perhaps not so good that the pie is no longer growing in size... even if you happen to get to eat more of it. (Or not eat, no one can eat *that* much. No one can wisely spend that much money.)
Climate change has some similar features.
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myrmepropagandistreplied to myrmepropagandist last edited by
It's naive to think that wealthy people are better at the marshmallow test than the rest of us. The inaction of climate change and their glee at inflicting economic harm for short term gain proves otherwise.
Marshmallow Test:
Child who can't wait and eats both: poor impulse control
Child who waits: Better impulse control
Child who finds the whole bag under the table and stuffs them in their mouth, gets sick: future billionaire -
myrmepropagandistreplied to myrmepropagandist last edited by
Friendly reminder that "The Marshmallow Test" may be a better test of how much a child trusts the adult who is running the test than anything else. (And children can have good reasons for not trusting random people "in charge")
Many of the correlations with "success" might just be measuring class divides.
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Chrisshy Keygenreplied to myrmepropagandist last edited by
@futurebird yes yes yes yes YES!
I saw some fool trying to say the "Stanford marshmallow test" was proof of genetic superiority of certain demographics and... Ya know, I'm not sure if I have ever been angry enough to want to stop living before
