宋圭武观点132：为什么财富、地位、权力等提升会降低一个人的同情心

一些研究表明，财富的增多和社会地位的提高包括个人权力的增加会降低一个人对他人的同情心。这里一种解释是，当一个人的财富增多及社会地位提高包括个人权力增加时，其个人的自由度也增加了，同时对他人的依赖程度也降低了，这会导致其对他人的存在会有一种忽视和漠不关心的心理倾向。另外，个人认为，产生这种情况也与等级因素有关。

在动物界，我们发现，人作为高等级的动物，对低自己等级的动物，总体同情心要小于同等级的人类。比如，一个人看见一个老虎吃人，会比看见一个老虎吃野鸡心理更难受一些，也就是，人对野鸡的同情心，是要小于对人类的同情心的。另外，一般而言，人对动物的同情心也高于对植物的同情心，因为动物的等级要高于植物的等级。

问题是，为什么高等级的对低等级的同情心更少，这大概与生存进化有关。因为生存进化的生物链消费原则一般是高等级的要消费低等级的，因为要消费对方，必然需要更少一些同情心，不然消费功能无法有效完成。

如此，财富的增多和社会地位的提高包括个人权力的增加，这会提高他在同类中的等级感，而等级感一旦提高，对低一等级的同情心必然会减少。在这种情况下，必然同一级别的官员，互相之间可能会更有同情心。比如，县级的对县级，地厅级的对地厅级，省级的对省级，会更有同情心。而上级对下级，会普遍的同情心减少。另外，不同级别之间，也可能同情心不一样，也可能减少。比如，县级的对地厅级的，就未必有对县级同样的同情心，或科级的对省级的，未必也有对科级一样的同情心。总之，官员之间，同一级别的，可能互相之间同情心更大，不同级别之间的，就未必。

总之，一个人的同情心，一方面，不同等级之间同情心较少，另一方面，高等级的对低等级的同情心较少。

另外，同情心的多少还与遗传有关。有些人天生富有同情心。也就是说，一个人是好干部，还是坏干部，也有天生的因素。好，谢谢，谢谢。

Song Guiwu's Point 132: Why Does Increasing Wealth, Status, Power, etc. Decrease One's Empathy

Some studies have shown that the increase of wealth and the improvement of social status, including the increase of personal power, will decrease one's empathy towards others.One explanation is that when one's wealth and social status increase, including the increase of personal power, one's personal freedom also increases, and at the same time, the degree of dependence on others decreases, which will lead to a psychological tendency to ignore and indifferent to the existence of others.In addition, I think this situation is also related to the hierarchical factors.In the animal kingdom, we find that as a high-level animal, humans have less overall empathy for animals lower than their own level than humans of the same level.For example, a person who sees a tiger eating a human will feel more uncomfortable than a person who sees a tiger eating pheasants. That is to say, humans have less empathy for pheasants than for humans.In addition, in general, humans have more empathy for animals than for plants, because the animal hierarchy is higher than that of plants.The question is why higher-level animals have less empathy for lower-level animals. This may be related to survival and evolution. Because the principle of consumption in the biological chain of survival and evolution is that higher levels consume lower levels, because to consume each other, it is necessary to have less sympathy, or the consumption function cannot be effectively completed.Thus, the increase of wealth and the improvement of social status, including the increase of individual power, will increase his sense of hierarchy among his peers, and once the sense of hierarchy is increased, the sympathy towards lower levels will inevitably decrease.In this case, it is inevitable that officials at the same level may have more sympathy with each other.For example, county level to county level, prefecture level to prefecture level, provincial level to provincial level, will have more sympathy.And the superior to the subordinate will generally have less sympathy.In addition, between different levels, sympathy may be different or reduced.For example, county level to prefecture level may not have the same sympathy as county level, or section level to provincial level may not have the same sympathy as section level.In short, between officials, at the same level, there may be more sympathy between each other, between different levels, there may not be.In short, a person's sympathy, on the one hand, is less between different levels, on the other hand, higher levels are less sympathetic to lower levels.In addition, the amount of sympathy is also related to heredity.Some people are naturally compassionate. That is to say, there are also innate factors that determine whether a person is a good or bad leader. OK, thank you, thank you.