Holy shit, the ruling class haven't progressed from Nazi pseudoscience at all. These are some of the most powerful people on Earth and they're barely smarter than cave people that think their own shadows are ghosts.

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[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is it really true that in the West rich people are less skeptical of psychic things than poor people?

I've heard this once before on Hexbear.

Most places it's the opposite – poor people are comfortable ideas like ghosts, telepathy, astrology, and the rich people look down their noses at that with a sort of 'Western scientific' attitude.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd say that general woo stuff is very common among the poor. Stuff like astrology and ghosts and such. But I think there's a subset of rich people who really want to believe that they're rich because they're special and insightful and know stuff we plebs don't know, and that fuels some other types of woo that are less common down here.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I call this "prosperity gospel for new-agers".

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

Around me, rich people have that sort of thinking but with "christian" asthetics.

[–] onwardknave@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

Anecdotally, I've seen scammy fortune teller signs in poor places, and the poorer, the greater the chance I see one. It's a tragic symbiosis -- no way to make money to live or leave turns people to prey on others' desperate hopes and ignorance, and that same need for hope draws in the ignorant. Maybe it's the same reason people play the lottery when they know the odds of winning are ridiculously low... People are paying for hope and a temporary fantasy.