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Re:I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit othe... by ohaideredevs on Thursday May 16, 2019 @12:50PM (#19930629)
You can't gain empathy when something is temporary. Most of the stress of being poor comes of worry about how to handle long term problems / the fact that life has no point except slaving away. That cannot be replicated without genuinely taking everything away from a person.
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Re:I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit othe... by mywittyname on Thursday May 16, 2019 @04:21PM (#19932748)
I disagree, if reading books can increase empathy [0], then I'd expect any activity that forced you to experience the way another person lives would do the same.

[0] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/377

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Re:I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit othe... by gremlinsinc on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:10AM (#19937710)
They need a show like undercover bosses, but instead the CEO must live on 7.50 for an entire year, and work as their own employee they have 0 access to savings, they cannot use credit either, and they are given 1 suitcase of clothes, a cellphone, laptop, and some feature comforts for their tiny apartment like a 32 inch tv.
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Re:I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit othe... by c0vfefe on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:38PM (#19941209)
30 Days Season 1 Episode 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmSGEGOVI34

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Re:I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit othe... by diogenescynic on Friday May 17, 2019 @10:48AM (#19940083)
I'd pay money to watch Angelo Mozilo go through that.
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Re:I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit othe... by diogenescynic on Friday May 17, 2019 @10:47AM (#19940076)
>You can't gain empathy when something is temporary. Most of the stress of being poor comes of worry about how to handle long term problems

This was a really insightful comment. I had never thought about it that articulately, but yeah if you are only dealing with stress temporarily, you can't even comprehend what it's like to deal with that FOREVER. It's just an impossible concept to grasp for someone who has that level of a safety net.

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