Scientists at Warwich University in the UK recently tested this idea.They gathered a group of people together and gave each an imaginary amount of money.___72______ Those given a little were given the chance to destroy the large amount of money given to others – but at the cost of losing their own.Two thirds of the people tested agreed to do this.
___73_____ But there is also conflicting evidence.The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development recently reported that the UK is now the world’s fourth largest economy.That is not bad for people who are supposed to hate success.People in the UK also work longer hours than anyone else in Europe.So the British people are not lazy, either.
“It is not really success that the British dislike,” says Carey Cooper, a professor of management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.“It’s people using their success in a way that seems proud or unfair or which separates them from their roots.”
___74_____ They set out to do things in their way.They work long hours.By their own efforts they become millionaires.___75_____ It hardly seems worth following their example.If they were more friendly, people would like them more.And more people want to be like them.
A.This seems to prove that the entrepreneurs were right to complain.
B.The one who owns most money in the end is the winter.
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