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So you're getting at 'wealth<->narcissism' which I'm not sure is necessarily correlated. I don't know.

I was getting at 'nature vs. nurture' - and there is definitely a 'learned' aspect to narcissism etc..



it is interesting - perhaps a sense of entitlement I was thinking - more likely to be from wealth, but not necessarily.


Yes actually that's probably true.

But prisons are full of narcissistic personality disorder types as well.

Most wealthy people score very high on levels of conscientiousness - they generally behave well, not recklessly.

But that includes doctors, etc. - not so much the bankers, executives and people that can get into situations of real leverage and power.

It's


> Most wealthy people score very high on levels of conscientiousness

references?




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