We Treat Billionaires Like Oracles - Here's Why That's Wrong

What if the process of becoming extremely wealthy actively destroys your ability to understand how life works for everyone else?

This isn't opinion. This is behavioural science.

I break down the neuroscience of power, the psychology of wealth, and why the people we treat as society's great explainers are structurally the least qualified to do it.

CHAPTERS
00:00 – The reverence problem & why we treat billionaires like oracles
01:30 – Inequality is Invisible To The Wealthy
02:00 – Kahnemann and Tversky - The Availability Heuristic
03:30 – Failure is No Longer in their data set
05:10 – Dacher Keltner and what power does to the brain
09:00 – Michael Kraus, Paul Piff and attribution bias & why rich people think effort always works
10:30 – Jeff Besos - success without consequence

I’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.

This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.

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