BULLIES DO BETTER IN LIFE

Researchers from the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex have published new research that says, basically, those who were bullies in school are more successful in life. They make more money, have higher job satisfaction and have the more desirable jobs. The researchers used data collected on around 7,000 people born in 1970. They examined data from primary school teachers who assessed the children’s social and emotional skills when they were 10 years old in 1980, and matched it to their lives at the age of 46 in 2016. They found a strong link between aggressive behavior at school and higher earnings in later life. They conclude that our classrooms are competitive places and that children adapt to win that competition with aggression, and then take that through to the workplace where they continue to compete aggressively for the best paid jobs. The researchers say perhaps we need to reconsider discipline in schools and help to channel this characteristic in children in a more positive way.
* Sure – make kids even gentler so the alphas can totally bulldoze their way to the top.
* Of course bullies are richer, they have all our lunch money.
* “Have an aggressive day at school, Timmy, so you can support us when we’re older!”
* The only bright spot: If you’re a really smart nerd, you could skip to the head of the line. Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Weird Al Yankovic …
* This sounds like the researchers were looking for a reason why they ended up working at the Institute for Social and Economic Research.