I love this. There’s another one where they go to a wine tasting and give people a glass from a $20 bottle and they hate it, then a glass from a $200 bottle and they love it. But then they reveal that both glasses are actually from the same $20 bottle.
Wealth and it’s trappings is a false construct meant to elevate those that
Have.
This is just like that Penn and Teller “Bullshit” thing where they went to a high-class restaurant and had a “water steward” present different brands of bottled water to people, claiming this water was from a mountain somewhere or that water was from a glacier, and then the people would talk about how different they all tasted. Except all the water came from the same source: The garden hose outside the restaurant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFKT4jvN4OE
Never underestimate the power of marketing wank or the gullibility of rich people.
I mean except this is an actual psychological phenomenon called confirmation bias. It doesn’t affect just rich people dudes. There are tons of psychological studies about it. Basically, if you do something with a preexisting suggestion about what it is or how it works, your brain automatically assumes its true and changes your perception of the thing based on the bias. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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