Why Can't We Empathize with The Rich?
Channel: daniel torres
Date: 2023-07-02

Empathy, it turns out, comes built into humanity. It’s one of those virtues, like justice and freedom, that gets brought up a lot in politics. But it seems people are becoming more selective of who they give their empathy to. We saw this as headlines of a missing submersible washed over the news. 

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0:00 - Origins of Empathy
1:03 - The Missing Submersible
3:23 - Are We Facing an Empathy Deficit?
4:43 - Empathy Inequality
7:11 - Origins of Schadenfreude
8:47 - Empathy and Schadenfreude




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