March 2, 2012 | Greed Study at Berkley
Dear editor:
I found it ironic when reading the article today by Eryn Brown about the study by University of California at Berkley researchers that linked unethical behavior and greed to personal wealth and the one percent. The fact that the study was done in San Francisco, the heart of left wing liberal America, might have escaped these researchers as relevant. I wonder what the results would be if the same study was done in the bible belt or any midsized town in Ohio for instance. For myself there have been numerous times when I have been given to much change or not charged for something and I have pointed out the clerks mistake. If you have principles or have grown up being taught right from wrong they don’t evaporate just because a person has done well. I would also like to know if the offenders were observed to be young or older as too many of today’s youth have been taught that whatever you can get away with is OK. The fact that they used students attending Berkley severely taints the results as far as I am concerned.
Robert Brinkman
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