Whether or not you go ahead and ask it, there is one question on everyone’s mind when meeting somebody for the first time: How much money do you make?
Contrary to popular belief, our obsession with other people’s income and wealth has nothing to do with blind curiosity. According to most psychologists, the desire to establish another person’s financial status is wired deeply into our subconsciousness.
Apparently, it is all to do with the fact that human beings associate wealth with stability, safety, security and success. And when a person achieves all four of these things, we are instinctively drawn to them – over and above people who are poor and struggling to get by.
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