the amount of empathy we have for ppl is anticorrelated with the size of their bank account
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true if you believe the signaling but I don’t
you can clearly tell ppl are more engaged w news stories where rich white people die
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I imagine it's more like "the amount of empathy we have for people is correlated with how close their bank account balance is to our own". Wealthy people (in the global sense) don't seem to show much empathy for homeless people, the global poor, etc.
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Do they not? I felt like they did, but it's possible this is due to being exposed to stuff like twitter idk
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causes
1) wealth => visibility, and visibility makes people see you as more morally culpable. similar thing happens with other sorts of fame. **
2) triggers unfairness subagent, strong evo urge to punish people seen as being unfair
3) what else?
** blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen
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There are a lot of Yemeni children the US is blocking medical aid to who disagree
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