No Fucking Way: Anthony Cruz edition

No Fucking Way: code red!


"Money Relieves Pain." - science nerds


"I gotta have it, so plus, just to visualize is like a coke rush/Vivid enough to make living this a must, plus this is real." - AZ

(we also would have accepted "Fuck who's the baddest, a person's status depends on salary," but he said that in a Nas song and I really wanted to post "Sugar Hill")

Aw, isn't it nice when Brooklyn & Queens can come together?
AZ requests that his comrades put the $50 bills in the safe, as they are quite valuable; the bills worth $20 are allowed to be spent. And the ladies in their lives will be rewarded with $1 bills.

Money dulls physical pain and eases the sting of social rejection, new research shows; it acts as a social lubricant, since it convinces people you're pretty dope if you have it.
(Results are still pending on whether the sky is blue, whether record company people are shady, and if meth is bad for you or not.)

Really though, it turns out you don't even have to have money to enjoy its soothing effects, according to the study below, because just thinking about money you could possibly have will make you happier and less distressed. I shall go ahead and file this under "Things AZ Has Been Trying to Tell Us for Years."

"Through six experiments, psychologists and a marketing professor probed the power of money as a proxy for social acceptance. Among their results, they found that merely touching bills or thinking about expenses paid affected the participants both physically and emotionally.

To test money’s effect on physical pain, 96 recruits were split into two groups and counted either money or paper. Then an assistant strapped down their left hands and dipped their fingers in hot water with a temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius). On average, those who counted money rated their pain lower than those who counted paper.

'These effects speak to the power of money, even as a symbol, to change perceptions of very real feelings,' like pain, said Kathleen Vohs, a co-author of the study.

The results prop up earlier studies showing that money's effect on our emotions stems from its symbolic power in social interactions, the researchers wrote. It stands in for acceptance and popularity, and allows those who have it to get what they want from the vast social network on which we depend — regardless of whether they are well liked or not."

Thanks, LiveScience, but I have already been apprised of this situation thanks to a hundred thousand million songs by rappers, and David Gilmour too ("Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash/New car, caviar, four star daydream, think Ill buy me a football team").
Your little study is cute, though.

It's so love-layy, sippin bub-layy.



PS: Juicy - "Sugar Free"





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