Is it easier to BRAINWASH Rich people or Poor people?

Answer 1

It's easier to brainwash poor people, because it's easier to control their environment and their access to information.

But it's just as easy to manipulate rich people -- the tricks and processes are just different.

Answer 2

Excellent Question! EXCELLENT!

The vast majority can be and have been...duped.

Abraham Lincoln once said that you can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but never all the people all the time.

I would like to modify that statement to reflect the recent times, and say, that if you define the word "all" as being the vast majority of people who are lost in the middle to lower classes, then old Abe was wrong.

You can fool them all of the time.

In the entire spectrum of people out there, some have migrated toward the upper crust of...say the top one percent who earn big figures (either as C.E.O.'s of global corporations or holders of vast amounts of stock or other tangibles), and these few are difficult to see or understand, and don't do what the rest of the people do.

These people manipulate the rest of the population...so that we get screwed up families and junk that hasn't much intrinsic value.

The downsizing that goes on in business results in cheapened values, and if this is part of what you call brainwashing, then you may see my point.

There is not one brand new car I would like to own.

There were many cars I wish I owned made in the 1950's and 1960's.

In sum, only the masses get brainwashed into desiring things that the obscure rich have created to appease them with.

No longer do we need to keep up with the Jones'.

They are all sinking in debt.

Answer 3

Lets see.
Republicans have brainwashed how many people into voting forbush twice and letting him get away with everything he has gotten away with for 6 years?

Foxnews brainwashes how many people into thinking their fair and balanced?

the roman catholic religion has brainwashed how many millions into thinking theyre oppressive religion is the way and yet in comparison to their numbers have done so little for humanity, compared to how much they could do if their leaders truly believed in all that is preached in The Bible.

So, Id say it depends on the manner in which the brainwashing takes place. As in the tool used to alter peoples beliefs.

Foxnews uses charasmatic personalities and well choosen report issues, and popular arguements over to gain favor so people will agree to them, but limits what they report on.
See the point

Answer 4

Tough call.

On the rich end, you have plenty of celebrities who are devout Scientologists. Enough said.

On the poor end, you have plenty of folks who believe everything they read in the Weekly World News. They spend about $1.95 a week to learn about Bat Boy, the Worlds Fattest Man, and how *insert current political big wig* was caught on camera shaking hands with an alien.

You tell me who is dumber.

Answer 5

Poor people have nothing.They don't posses great knowledge.They know only what their religion teaches them.
Rich people are spoiled have everything and have no idea why people are not happy. A mullah can give them a piece of bread and a kill the people who have everything message. we are not united and have everything.We can become a third world nation in 50 years or less. Learn Arabic.

Answer 6

The poor because they don't have the same degree of hope and optimism as the rich. They could also have moments of desperation and could be opened to being brainwashed.

Answer 7

Any correlation between ability to be brainwashed and wealth is purely coincidental. The underlying cause is intelligence and/or knowledge. Hence, rich people may be more likely to have educations which help prevent them from being brainwashed, but it is their knowledge, not their wealth, that protects them.

Answer 8

It is easier to manipulate Rich people than poor people because you already know what is important to them. Poor peoples values are more mysterious, and individual.

Answer 9

The uneducated ones. The rich have an easier access to education, so I'll say the poor. After all, trailer trash voted Dumbya, so there.

Answer 10

Neither; it is easier to brainwash impressionable people with lower self esteem and more likely to want to please the brainwasher or have the need to feel accepted. Either wealthy or poor people can have those traits.