Imagine being so “rich” you couldn’t have friends, or lovers or a family since the unnatural force of your wealth distorts all human relationships and interactions— turning kindness to suspected obsequiousness compliments to base spaniel fawning, love to a product worn for prestige— and the few who were not perturbed by the magnet of wealth come to hate you for all your suspicions.
@futurebird
I think there can be well-adjusted, normal rich people, just like there can be well-adjusted, normal beautiful people. It just takes a soul with a very grounded understanding of their worth and how unrelated that value is to the thing that makes them wealthy. And the understanding that those around them can be warped by their wealth and to view them with an open-eyed comprehension of human nature. It’s not impossible, but obviously it can be very hard to maintain.
@futurebird I see glimmerings of that with a fairly well-off friend of mine. I male a point of always going halfsies on dinner because it’s an unspoken signal that I’m there because I like him and not for his dough.