Wealth Delusion: How Money and Power Distort the Mind

You already know something is wrong with them.

The boss who takes credit for everything and feels nothing. The
billionaire who lectures you about sacrifice from a private jet. The
CEO whose entire company walked on eggshells while he collected
awards. You've seen it. You've worked for it. You've paid for it.

Now there's a name for it. And peer-reviewed citations.

The Wealth Delusion maps the six-stage cycle by which extreme
wealth and concentrated power reliably distort the human mind -
documented in neuroscience labs, psychology journals, and decades
of organizational behavior research that most people never see.

Inside, you'll discover:

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• Why your brain on money looks neurologically similar to your
  brain on cocaine - and what happens when the supply never stops
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• The documented mechanism by which power suppresses the brain's
  ability to read other people's emotions - measurable in imaging studies
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• Why corporate hierarchies function as psychopathy screening tools
  that preferentially promote the profiles most dangerous to everyone else
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• How philanthropy works as reputation management and regulatory
  capture - and why the numbers prove it
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• What DARVO is, how it's used by the powerful, and how to neutralize it
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• What structural policy changes the evidence actually supports -
  and what you can do right now

This is not a book about hating wealthy people. It is a book
about understanding what concentrated money and power reliably do
to human beings - and why a functioning society has every reason
to care about that, regardless of political affiliation.

Smart. Funny. Furious. Evidence-based.
The book your economist friends wish they'd written and your
therapist is going to start recommending.

For readers of Dacher Keltner, Jon Ronson, Anand Giridharadas,
and Thomas Piketty.