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Does Money Corrupt People?
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Does money corrupt people?
Someone in my family once told me when I was young that they didn't want money because it corrupted people. It scared me. If money could do that, staying away from it seemed like the safest thing.
That fear runs deeper than one conversation, and it isn't only inherited. Most of us are carrying some version of it.
Episode Three takes the fear apart. Why money gets blamed for things it never caused. What dopamine actually does when you get the raise, and why it never stays. What the research says about power and empathy, and why that still isn't an…
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