| Kasz216 said: Actually would have to see the study. Often times studies like this generally are weighted specifically go get such kinds of answers. I wouldn't be too surprised though, since you'd think assertiviness and ehtics are tied together in someway, and assertiveness is tied to success. I sorta doubt being unethical leads to more success though, because there is a HUGE hammer if your unethical and fail during most of your life.
Although I suppose it could be due to relative population size differences.
IE, people who bet their lifesavings one blackjack hand once in their life are probably disproportionatly rich. Even though more then half of them would fail at the game. Simply because the sample size of "rich" is lower then the normal set sample size. |
It is worth more study to find out exact details. Not all rich people act that way of course, and not all poor people are saints. One would have to see if the person with more money inherited it, or actually earned it and has an ethics set which causes them not to cheat. It is possible there is a correlation between assertiveness and being unethical? In this, the more a person is willing to be assertive and aggressive, the more they get, and the more they are likely to bend social norms to get somwhere (thus unethical). And then, if after all this, it is a matter of which causes which. Do people become more unethical when they become wealthier?
And then, after all these filters, there is another level of what it all means, and outcome as a result. It would be pushing it severely to use things as they are now to say that the way to address the issues is to suddenly redistribute wealth. Make rich poor and then ethics go up.
