Hello, hello, good evening, my friends.

I hope you're doing well.

Stefan Mullenupin Freedom, Maine.

Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, my friends to your Friday night life.

Our chitty-chaddy-bing, bing-bang, colliding neurons of spectacular thought, as my brother used to say,

when we were kids, splendidiferous philosophy.

And of course, I'm happy to take your questions, comments, issues, challenges, and

criticisms.

One of the things that I noticed, I was a study that came out not too long ago, which

had, for some people, a kind of counterintuitive aspect to it.

And the counterintuitive aspect was the study was looking at the attitudes of people

who used to be poor and then became richer, I mean, maybe middle class, maybe above.

And it was fascinating because the expectation was that the people who used to

become poor and then became not poor. I don't know if they became rich or just middle class

or above. They were expecting them to have a lot of sympathy towards the poor. And they didn't.

They actually had quite a bit of negative, negative sympathy, animosity, negative views of the poor.

And that was a little counterintuitive.

I'm going to explain it very briefly.

And then, Micas, you want to chat?

I appreciate that. We will make that

happen. But so when you grow up poor, you hear a lot of endless complaints and resentment

that people around you have about their lives. Oh, the system, oh, the bosses, oh, the government,

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