Money… where to begin about money. Many people believe that if you have it all of the problems you could possibly encounter on earth are solved. Even though many people believe that money is the ultimate solution to anything they are sadly mistaken. Although money does make some problems a lot less of big deal, or erases them all together, it also greatly intensifies some. Even though money can solve some problems or greatly diminishing them, having an abundance of money corrupts someone from being humble because money makes people arrogant, it gives us a sense of entitlement, it gives us worse interpersonal skills, you can form an addiction to money, it minimizes pain for a little while, but it does not get rid of it, and makes people less philanthropic. First off money makes people arrogant. People with a lot of money tend to …show more content…
Also in the article written by Lisa Miller The Money-Empathy Gap, a study was done by a professor at Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota named Kathleen Vohs. When she conducted the experiment she “primed” some of her candidates to think about money and she left some without “priming.” The way she “primed” the test subjects that were chosen to do so were given monopoly money and said things that were related to money. In one test the money primed subjects’ was asked, “to pull up a chair so a stranger may join the meeting” (Miller). “The “money-primed” subjects placed the chair a greater distance from themselves than the people in the control group” (Miller). After that test they were given a choice of how to spend their free time and, “the money primed people chose a private cooking lesson over a group catered dinner” (Miller). With the information found in these studies people that have a great deal of money have worse interpersonal skills and are more inclined to choose to do solo