Fairness is what the powerful ‘can get away with’ study shows: The willingness of those in power to act fairly depends on how easily others can collectively push back against unfair treatment (www.staffs.ac.uk)
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jjjalljs@ttrpg.network on 03 Aug 01:40 next collapse

Makes sense. The rich don’t try to prevent unionization and collective action purely out of spite.

Angry_Autist@lemmy.world on 03 Aug 02:10 collapse

Not completely spite, there’s a good chunk of fear there too

Rich people whisper in their private circles about all the times in the past the oppressed fight back, and spend a good chunk of their unethical wealth to prevent the common people from organizing

It’s worked so well that they’ve turned us against each other over the basic right to have a livable wage.

iii@mander.xyz on 03 Aug 15:07 collapse

Rich people whisper in their private circles about all the times in the past the oppressed fight back

Source?

HurricaneLiz@hilariouschaos.com on 03 Aug 15:22 next collapse

Source for me: The millionaires I’ve known. Even some making 6 digits. Now it’s echoed by those with 5 digits who think they’re rich.

Angry_Autist@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 03:30 collapse

Yep, and I’m working on ways to prey on that fear

Angry_Autist@lemmy.world on 03 Aug 23:05 collapse

History and direct experience. I’ll assume you’ve never actually dealt with the exceptionally wealthy

Why do you think all the billionaires have been building emergency estates the last 15 years? Oh and I DO have a source for that

theguardian.com/…/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apoc…)

OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca on 03 Aug 11:06 next collapse

The willingness of those in power to act fairly depends on how easily others can collectively push back against unfair treatment

And as long as Americans don’t collectively push back, Trump will continue to abuse anyone and everyone in his conquest of the country.

nucleative@lemmy.world on 03 Aug 16:32 next collapse

This is intuitive and you can see it everywhere. Rules and laws only have power when they are actively enforced. If there’s nobody there to stop a bad actor, eventually they will figure it out and abuse the flaw.

Getting people to drive at (or close to) the speed limit only takes seeing a couple of cops a day and perhaps having received a ticket or two.

Preventing tax cheats just requires enough enforcement so that you know of a guy who knows a guy who was turned inside out by an audit.

Keeping corruption in government low just requires a few public cases of the right people getting thrown in jail never to come back again. Sadly this is one that’s eroded significantly in recent memory and too many rotten actors are publicly getting away with shady business.

Smeagol666@mander.xyz on 04 Aug 21:54 collapse

This reminds me of Steve Harvey and his “moral barometer”. Still a douchebag whether he meant it that way or not.