When it has been demonstrated over and over again, how little they think of anyone beneath them.

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    Or to frame it slightly different: I believe that too much money and/or power is what turns most people evil over time.

    What are the mechanics of this?

    Instead, I believe the means of acquiring money/power from those who have enough of it creates pressures (say, a newspaper sponsored by Coca-Cola is pressured into not reporting on Coca-Cola’s problems), along with the hyperrealities created by conventional rich lifestyles (mainly associating with other wealthy people, being used to paying people to do work instead of doing it yourself, all that kind of thing) distorting ones worldview and alienating them from most of society and its issues.