Wealth and character.

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Character is dependent on many factors. We all should know here that it depends a lot on the good or bad wiring of you brain. But it depends also on many cultural factors: good or bad upbringing in terms of family, education and social extraction or background. Now, perhaps for reasons of recent experiences with people and for some introspection, I am thinking a lot about the influence of wealth or riches. This problem is never approached explicitly for various and obvious reasons, if anything else for fear of the IRS, possible requests of loans from “friends” or simple beggars. There is a good deal of reticence about your wealth or revenues. Now behavior is also in fact a product of wealth and nearly no one is completely candid about his/her wealth not even with intimate friends, with relatives, and even “consorts”. It’s a legacy of the social climate in which we live, and of the technical possibility not to disclose bank accounts and salaries. While humans are wired in the same way since at least 100,000 years, secrecy of bank accounts is a novelty of modern society. Secrecy about one’s own wealth is a formidable obstacle to sincerity in relationships. Or not?

personally i think all this cultural judgement s**t needs to stop... the world is not even a "society" anymore... its nothing but people at war...

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No, I am not telling where the good berry patches are, or where I hunt, for there would be nothing left for me from friends.

Friends would never pry, thieves would.

Never go directly to your best fishing hole, tell no one where you run a trapline.

Secrecy is very old, and needed.

There seems to be shame associated with being on either end of the financial spectrum. We don't want to be seen as doing excessively better than others, or excessively worse.

Money is like sex; the less you have the more you talk and the more you have the less you talk.

Both are no one's business.

Discuss nothing unless with a lover or with a banker.