Yes, just grab what you want right now, surely that is the best way to do things. Good job demonstrating moral superiority over those selfish bourgeoisie.
That experiment is actually a pretty good microcosm of how psychology has come up short in handling the mental trauma associated with poverty.
Something they didn’t really consider with those kids was the possibility of a child to just not trust the researcher, which is also a valid concern for people in poverty. Sometimes you just aren’t given the shit you were promised in life so it makes sense to take the immediate option. Sometimes you live in a system that is designed to keep you poor because your impoverishment is beneficial to the economic model as a whole
Honestly, my first thought with almost any study on stuff like this is, “did you control for economic status?”
It’s always the same shit: people who play golf live longer? Yeah, if they can afford to play an expensive game that takes a half a day to complete, they probably have more money and free time and less physical strain or emotional stress than the wage-slaves sorting boxes and hoping to be asked to work overtime so they can buy their kids braces.
That’s no longer considered good science, just fyi
A replication attempt with a sample from a more diverse population, over 10 times larger than the original study, showed only half the effect of the original study. The replication suggested that economic background, rather than willpower, explained the other half.[6][7]The predictive power of the marshmallow test was challenged in a 2020 study.[8][9]Work done in 2018 and 2024 found that the Marshmallow Test “does not reliably predict adult functioning”.[10]
It is actually. The rich fucks were only able to produce the food on the back of exploited workers. It’s not stealing, it’s getting what is rightfully ours.
This reminds me of that old psychology experiment with children and marshmallows.
Yes, just grab what you want right now, surely that is the best way to do things. Good job demonstrating moral superiority over those selfish bourgeoisie.
That experiment is actually a pretty good microcosm of how psychology has come up short in handling the mental trauma associated with poverty.
Something they didn’t really consider with those kids was the possibility of a child to just not trust the researcher, which is also a valid concern for people in poverty. Sometimes you just aren’t given the shit you were promised in life so it makes sense to take the immediate option. Sometimes you live in a system that is designed to keep you poor because your impoverishment is beneficial to the economic model as a whole
Honestly, my first thought with almost any study on stuff like this is, “did you control for economic status?”
It’s always the same shit: people who play golf live longer? Yeah, if they can afford to play an expensive game that takes a half a day to complete, they probably have more money and free time and less physical strain or emotional stress than the wage-slaves sorting boxes and hoping to be asked to work overtime so they can buy their kids braces.
That’s no longer considered good science, just fyi
It is actually. The rich fucks were only able to produce the food on the back of exploited workers. It’s not stealing, it’s getting what is rightfully ours.