It was found that super-rich individuals legitimise their wealth acquisition and spending by presenting themselves as psychologically superior to the less affluent and as a result, deserving of their extreme wealth. By drawing upon meritocratic ideology, individuals managed their moral identity as their wealth and consumption is warranted as earned
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wabasso@lemmy.ca · 46 pts · 193d
I don’t get how the rich and some politicians can just become the stereotypes they’ve been cast as in movies for…like forever!
“Hey that thing you’re doing is evil”
“Yeah but if I don’t do it first, some other guy will.”
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 193d
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 192d
Best movie ever made without colour IMO.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 192d
It's a good one. Might not be in the #1 spot for me but probably top 5 unless I'm forgetting some absolute masterpieces.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in case anyone scrolling by is unfamiliar. Something about whippersnappers, back in my day, uphill both ways, ouch my joints, so on.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 5 pts · 193d
That's how human psychology works.
Source
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And in our society, wealth is what matters the most. This in contrast with older (smaller) societies where status is derived from generousity.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 193d
Describes Musk and his god complex perfectly.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 193d
They're stereotypes for a reason.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 193d
It’s more like, when they watched those movies, they kind of got inspired by the villains and thought the negative portrayal was the fictional part.
They have always been waiting for the opportunity to do villain stuff and do it as long as they can get away with it (like doing a certain salute).
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 192d
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 193d
Remember the time Robocop shot that dude in the dick?
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 193d
That's not how I remember it. NSFW
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 193d
Haven't seen the original, so this is canon for me now 👍👍
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 193d
I've seen both, this one is still canon.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 193d
Dick canon
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 193d
If you like dick cannon...
DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 192d
Amazing!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 193d
That is how I unmember it
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 193d
You have ten seconds to comply! [Mechanical Growl]
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 193d
User declines using the application and escapes downstairs, robot pursues, falls down and can’t get up [mechanical tantrum with loud pig squealing]
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 193d
This is the right answer! 🤣🤣🤣
And now I want to see the CEO doing just this.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 192d
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 193d
Quick, run down some stairs!
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 193d
I love robots, but ED209 scared the shit out of me as a kid.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org · 6 pts · 193d
"By next year, i will have a million of fully autonomous ED209s on our streets to protect me from wokism!" - Elon Musk, probably.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 192d
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 192d
I think I see why mainstream culture was so goddamn earnest and antisatire in the 40s and 50s.
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 193d
Sorry, the verification can that I'm drinking from is in front of my face at the moment.
Bhaelfur@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 193d
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 193d
Stands up
McDonald's!
Sits back down
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 193d
BURMA SHAVE
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 192d
The difference between this and reality is the asking for consent.
Hupf@feddit.org · 1 pts · 192d
Did you not agree to the ToS?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 192d
For all the cameras in the street? For Ai using my data? For companies trading in my data?
Hell no, what ToS, I've never got one.
Hupf@feddit.org · 1 pts · 191d
I thought the scenario at hand was going to a cinema.
For the public space, sure, there's only laws.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 193d
If only there was some way to watch classic movies without using a corporate streaming service.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 3 pts · 193d
Seems all the classic movies on corporte streaming are "Leaving soon" because of profit optimizing licensing anyway.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 193d
Yarrrrr
capcool@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 193d
Its a good run discord. Have fun!
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 192d
Rated R for Robot
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 193d
Is this the old version or the new version
edinbruh@feddit.it · 2 pts · 192d
You know, Hideki Konno predicted all this
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 192d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yuaUCKFII
Rolder@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 193d
Asking for consent is already better then what we’re seeing now
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 2 pts · 193d
He's not really asking.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 192d
And then Omnicorp's OmniSeer age verification system (alongside with ChatOCP and OmniCasso Art servers) get hacked, leaking a ton of user information