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It's amazing how quickly you got downvoted. Feelings will be hurt.

In any case, the abstract reads funny to me:

"Nine preregistered studies (n = 4197) demonstrate that advantaged group members misperceive equality as necessarily harming their access to resources and inequality as necessarily benefitting them."

Can we really blame exceptionally selfish people for not wanting to give up anything in a world where not everyone can live like a king at the expense of the vast majority? We only have one planet and they know it.




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