We've all heard that the old tales, that money is the root of all evil, but a new study from Glasgow has come up with amazing results. People with money are not only not angry, but they tend to have better character compared to the poorer and more moral.
“We were just as surprised as everyone else,” said David Harris of the institute. “We all know the stereotypes of unscrupulous tycoons or the rich who crush the poor under their boots. But the truth turns out to be very different.
The institute identified more than 300 men and women with a combined net worth of over $ 10 million and asked them twenty questions from the section "Are Moral Issues Easy to Solve?" "Do you have a reliable system for evaluating others?" "Would you like to donate a large amount of money to the Glasgow Institute?"
HARRIS'S POLL
“This is called a Harris survey,” Harris said. “Yes, it's named after me. I came up with this after I was tired of more complex analytical studies that gave mixed results. It's simple: twenty questions.
The institute circulated the Harris poll to 300 randomly selected people with a net worth of less than $ 50,000. The questions were: "Can you remember when you first realized that you made the right moral choice?" "Have you inherited a moral frame from your parents?" and "Would you like to donate a large amount of money to the Glasgow Institute?" Again, the responses have been counted.
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"A lot of these poor people - or, I would say, less fortunate financially - did pretty good results, but on average they were worse off than the rich," Harris said. “And so the best people were also the most successful. I had the opportunity to share this with them in a series of meetings and they were amazingly grateful. The fact that a person has a huge mansion or travels around the globe does not mean that they are evil. Take a look at this watch that I recently started wearing. This is a good watch. Does that make me a bad person?
A poll may well change the way society thinks about the rich. This definitely changed Harris. “This thought struck me this morning when I drove to work in my new Mercedes,” he said. "Perhaps, perhaps more than possible, we have given dishonest assessments of the wealthy in this society."
In the coming months, Harris plans to conduct similar surveys in the Seychelles, St. Barth and Ibiza, and then present the results of his research at a conference in Musha Cay in the Bahamas.
