At this point you are taking a strained interpretation of the sentence that is far from the natural interpretation,
You know, the funny thing is that I don’t see it as ‘strained’ at all. And I don’t think it’s even that un-exceptional a belief—though it is a “callow” one. I can rephrase it again and see if it seems more “familiar” to you.
The poor stay that way because they don’t care about money.
The rich only get that way because they’re greedy.
It’s perfectly easy to be happy without money.
interpretation that still requires a off belief based on how most poor people seem to think.
And why, pray tell, would you believe that most people don’t think they have valid notions about how other people think? How often, for example, have you heard libertarians talk about (or get denigraded for adhering to) the notion of “picking yourself up off your bootstraps”? The Google Search term poor people don’t care about money yielded 227,000,000 hits.
This seems to be more of an attempt to make a specific tribe not as wrong as they were rather than just acknowledge that many members of the tribe are wrong.
… and there’s the bias. :-) (One way or the other, someone here is biased and not thinking clearly.)
Now, I’ve given a great deal—at this point—of evidence to affirm my position.
If you really wanted to, I’d be more than happy to go through a list of events in the last few weeks where I have openly and directly disagreed with people who are “in-tribe” to me.
I strongly suspect and would be willing to bet money that if one phrased the question in terms of utility or close to your other wording the numbers would look nearly identical.
So you’re willing to bet money that context #1 would be nearly identical to the original phrasing, eh?
How about context #2? Moreover: how about if we were to ask how many people thought context #2 (absent context #1) was at least one way to read the original statement?
(I once again want to point out that context #2, by tying the concept of “value” to “this makes me a better person”, isn’t suited to questions of utilitarian evaluation. They can’t be. It’s a virtue-based statement, and it is a modal failure to require utilitarian framing for value-based norms.)
The Google Search term ‘poor people don’t care about money’ yielded 227,000,000 hits.
The Google Search term “poor people don’t care about money”, however, yields only 7 results for the exact phrase. Many of the highest-ranked results from the search withoute quote marks are indeed from conservative/libertarian sites, but not all of them (e.g., some prominent results are “Minnesota Republicans To Outlaw Poor People Having Money” and “Rush Limbaugh Says Poor Don’t Deserve Healthcare”) And the vast majority of the millions of results are from completely unrelated sites, as usually happens when you search for a phrase made of common words without using quote marks.
You’ve made some good points here, especially in regard to the fact that empirically a lot of people do seem to think that the poor don’t care about money, and could have been answering the question in that context. I have to update my estimate that the change would not be that large if phrased explicitly in a way that emphasized utility of a dollar. My previous estimate was around 70% that the numbers for both would stay within +/- 10 percent or so (so the liberal/progressive “incorrect” response would be some level below 14% and the conservative/libertarian “incorrect” response would be around 21-41%). Given your arguments I still suspect this is true but need to reduce my confidence by quite a bit, to around 55% or so. So I’d still be willing to put even money on this. But I probably need to think about this more and update further.
You know, the funny thing is that I don’t see it as ‘strained’ at all. And I don’t think it’s even that un-exceptional a belief—though it is a “callow” one. I can rephrase it again and see if it seems more “familiar” to you.
The poor stay that way because they don’t care about money.
The rich only get that way because they’re greedy.
It’s perfectly easy to be happy without money.
And why, pray tell, would you believe that most people don’t think they have valid notions about how other people think? How often, for example, have you heard libertarians talk about (or get denigraded for adhering to) the notion of “picking yourself up off your bootstraps”? The Google Search term poor people don’t care about money yielded 227,000,000 hits.
… and there’s the bias. :-) (One way or the other, someone here is biased and not thinking clearly.)
Now, I’ve given a great deal—at this point—of evidence to affirm my position.
If you really wanted to, I’d be more than happy to go through a list of events in the last few weeks where I have openly and directly disagreed with people who are “in-tribe” to me.
So you’re willing to bet money that context #1 would be nearly identical to the original phrasing, eh?
How about context #2? Moreover: how about if we were to ask how many people thought context #2 (absent context #1) was at least one way to read the original statement?
(I once again want to point out that context #2, by tying the concept of “value” to “this makes me a better person”, isn’t suited to questions of utilitarian evaluation. They can’t be. It’s a virtue-based statement, and it is a modal failure to require utilitarian framing for value-based norms.)
The Google Search term “poor people don’t care about money”, however, yields only 7 results for the exact phrase. Many of the highest-ranked results from the search withoute quote marks are indeed from conservative/libertarian sites, but not all of them (e.g., some prominent results are “Minnesota Republicans To Outlaw Poor People Having Money” and “Rush Limbaugh Says Poor Don’t Deserve Healthcare”) And the vast majority of the millions of results are from completely unrelated sites, as usually happens when you search for a phrase made of common words without using quote marks.
You’ve made some good points here, especially in regard to the fact that empirically a lot of people do seem to think that the poor don’t care about money, and could have been answering the question in that context. I have to update my estimate that the change would not be that large if phrased explicitly in a way that emphasized utility of a dollar. My previous estimate was around 70% that the numbers for both would stay within +/- 10 percent or so (so the liberal/progressive “incorrect” response would be some level below 14% and the conservative/libertarian “incorrect” response would be around 21-41%). Given your arguments I still suspect this is true but need to reduce my confidence by quite a bit, to around 55% or so. So I’d still be willing to put even money on this. But I probably need to think about this more and update further.