
Princeton Psychology Professor, Eldar Shafir: Why Having Too Little Makes People Perform Worse and Become More Impatient, Impulsive, and Careless (#24)
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Scarcity doesn't produce culture, because scarcity per se is insa fleeting state. You can ben scarce idontave enough, and once i give enough money, you're no longer in scarcity. So it's much more fluid than cultural norms. It's no doubt true that if i grow up in a home where people functionin under poverty, i absorb certain cultural issues that have to do with functioning under poverty. I'm not immune to any of that. But we havet really studied them, and i consider them sort of secondary. We take for granted when you walk into the bank, you expect a certain decorum of respect. From psychological perspective, that is enormous effect
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