The Mean Streets of Wall 0
Joanna Weiss of the Boston Globe considers some reasearch:
Those attitudes, researchers say, stem from the way money translates into power, and power into “moral disengagement.’’ A CEO sees his salary as a measure of his worth, and views his employees as relatively worthless.
“You end up basically thinking of those at the bottom as numbers,’’ said Sreedhari Desai, a Harvard research fellow who co-authored the study. “You feel somehow that they aren’t even worthy of the normal people that you’d meet. They’re disposable.’’
The article is worth one’s while.
And it does seem consistent with observed behavior, does it not?
