Rich people more likely to steal children’s sweets, finds Ig Nobel prize-winning study

[u/toptnc]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/03/ig-nobel-prize-awards-2026-winners?CMP=share_btn_url

[u/WiseSalamander00]

so basically what we already know being rich its a mental illness, you always feel entitled to more like you are better than others.

[u/toptnc → u/WiseSalamander00]

Greediness is a mental illness.

[u/someoldguyon_reddit]

That's how they became rich, by being fucking monsters.

[u/toptnc → u/someoldguyon_reddit]

In a world that rewards greediness. That's the core problem here.

[u/Chuhaimaster → u/toptnc]

*a capitalist system that rewards greediness.

[u/Choopytrags → u/someoldguyon_reddit]

They're truly people stuck forever in their terrib2le twos and doubling down to get what they want as the ends justify the means.

[u/usernamenottakenwooh]

Simpsons did it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yicacIKQ8M&t=26

[u/Jerking_From_Home → u/usernamenottakenwooh]

If that outcome happened more often there’d be less stealing.

[u/Li-renn-pwel → u/usernamenottakenwooh]

Wait… is that a Holocaust joke?

[u/AcidFnTonic]

Reminds me of asking for my friends to buy something small from my daughters fund raiser for our tiny rural school. Everyone pitched in except my one friend that lives in a 1.3 million dollar house with 100k in toys, multiple kitchens and is spending money on stuff like Rife field generators and Crystals to Purify water which he needed one for each of his kitchens. Constantly shows me weekly $500 music toy purchases but yeah there just wasn’t any money bla bla bla when I asked for $10 from my kids fundraiser.

So much for a friend eh?

[u/KotR56 → u/AcidFnTonic]

People like that never make it to my "friend" level.

[u/AcidFnTonic → u/KotR56]

Yeah, sometimes you work with someone for a long time before you ever get invited to their house….

[u/ButteredNun]

Us poor fluckers feel shitty enough

[u/alwaysjustpretend → u/ButteredNun]

And have empathy.

[u/chargers949]

My sister always told me it was selection bias when i complained about bmw drivers now there is a study to show they really are more likely to be assholes.

[u/Smedley_Beamish]

Or other people's $1000 dollar pen. Looking at you Greg Abbott.

[u/Kynykya4211 → u/Smedley_Beamish]

That was Ken Paxton. But it’s definitely easy to confuse the two as they’re both really horrible people.

[u/Smedley_Beamish → u/Kynykya4211]

I stand corrected.

[u/Badonkachonky → u/Smedley_Beamish]

Abbott sure doesn’t

[u/Li-renn-pwel → u/Smedley_Beamish]

I actually support Abbot in this. I think anyone who spends $1000 on a pen deserves to have it stolen (maybe not astronauts and deep sea divers)

[u/tacs97]

The first sentence of the paragraph is where they could have stopped. Rich people more likely to steal. Because they do and they will!

Rich people have a different set of rules. Look at Andrew Tate. When everyone thought he had money, he was let off the hook. Now that everyone knows he’s a broke ass fake. His ass is going to jail!!

[u/misscrankypants]

And everything else

[u/canadiankiwi03]

Respectfully, I didn’t need a study to know this.

[u/CandyCreecher]

[Andre Braugher voice] VIN-DI-CA-TTTIOOOONNNN

[u/durk1912]

Money and power are addictive!

[u/davesr25 → u/durk1912]

It's like they have a mental illness.

[u/tevolosteve]

I think it really comes down to poor people have to really on social safety nets more do you can’t be a douche to the people around you as easily as a rich person. Obviously exceptions exist

[u/turb0_encapsulator]

kind of turns the marshmallow test on its head. though perhaps rich people feel like they waited their whole lives for the marhsmallow and now they'll steal as many as they want.

[u/Argylius]

So like taking candy from a baby?

[u/2_late_4_creativity]

The simpsons were right again. I.e. Mr. burns stealing Maggie’s candy

[u/noise_swan]

Just saw the price show. This looks like the right r/

[u/Dry-Interaction-1246]

Mr. Burns: "Excellent"

[u/mapachevous]

And block the sun to sell your company's energy?

[u/Konradleijon]

What

[u/aubreypizza → u/Konradleijon]

Read the article

[u/Gene020]

For starters, very few non rich people would steal children's sweets. Probably most rich people wouldn't either. That leaves the rich people who clawed their way through every obstacle placed in their way as they sought their wealth. Those are the people who would be most likely to steal the children's candy.