Jeff Bezos recently spoke of spending a billion dollars a year on space. “The only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel,” he explained during an Axel Springer awards ceremony in Berlin in April.
Criticism was swift, with some suggesting that this “financial resource” might be better deployed to the thousands of Amazon employees who rely on food stamps to make ends meet. The implication was clear: Bezos was a rich guy who lacked empathy for ordinary people.
In fact, gaffes such as Bezos’s come amid plenty of research that suggests the rich really do have less empathy than others.
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