"[T]he richest people took more candy than anyone else"

[ProgressiveATL]

That candy? Was for kids.

Fascinating study: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/27/upper-class-people-more-likely-to-cheat-study/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

“It really shows the extreme lengths to which wealth and upper rank status in society can shape patterns of self-interest and unethicality[.]”

“It is that very different level of privilege in your everyday life that gives rise to this independence from others, this reduced sensitivity to the impact of your behavior on others’ welfare, and the prioritization of your self-interest,” he [Paul Piff] said.

The study considers this phenomena on an individual scale; extrapolate outwards and notice those same patterns being expressed and codified and protected on a societal scale.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Worse, they took more, then took ours, then paid people to help them take even more.

And the people they paid were supposed to have our backs.

What's very sad is the sense of entitlement the thieves and their families and children develop over time.

Dammit.

K/R

[unionworks]

2. Blueberry Pie

"They've got the pie all over their face! They was the ones eatin' the pie"! (I love Reverend Al).

[Duppers]

3. I worked for a stock broker one summer...

he stole toilet paper from the restroom. I am not kidding!

The guy was under 35, younger than me, and was worth almost a million, according to the former secretary. Yes, he was clinical.

[unionworks]

4. LMAO

...in most of the shops I have worked in (and that's a lot) the front office white collar people stole the most.

[starroute]

5. Well, they have a sense of entitlement

I suspect this is the real reason the Republicans are trying to make "entitlement" a dirty word.

It's not just a convenient way to undermine Social Security and Medicare -- programs to which the recipients are genuinely entitled. It also serves to displace the other meaning of "entitled" -- that belief among the wealthy that they have a right to grab off anything they can get their hands on -- and attach it to so-called "greedy" seniors instead.

This not only smears the genuinely needy and deserving but deprives us of the ability to clearly label the actual abuses of the wealthy. Two birds with one stone.