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Candy Cottrell
Self Employed (2005–present) · Author has 773 answers
and 428.5K answer views · 4y

I think many feel that having money puts them above

others who has less.

Totally untrue, but money can ruin good character.

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Richard Rayner
Various in Electrical and Electronics Engineering &
Mathematics, Lord Mayor Treloar College/University
(Graduated 1973) · Author has 1.5K answers and 5.2M…
answer views · 2y
Fair question. There are two kinds of wealthy people. The
first kind are those who are born wealthy and come from
“Old” wealth and thus usually carry a title and have a
“country seat” and they are born to the wealth & have
grown up with it and it is a part of them and they generally
understate their wealth and are governed on the whole by
Nobles Oblige

I knew a Lady (name withheld) who always used to use

her given name, Jean, and used to drop her title and was
always down to earth tho’ she could be quite imperious if
you got her dander up. She came from really old money.
She was a Lady in every sense of the word.

But there are the Self Made Wealthy people who never
got the upbringing either because they were poor, or
because of those they mixed with as they acquired their
wealth. These are the Nouveau Riche who have the
money, but lack the taste and the “breeding” to carry it
off. They are the ones who are generally rude.
ostentatious and brag endlessly how much they’re worth
and enjoy rubbing poorer peoples noses in it.

It’s also a fact the same thing is true at the other end of
the social scale. There are some real diamond people who
are extremely poor, but they have excellent manners and
extremely polite, but there are also extremely rude and
obnoxious poor people. So perhaps it’s not down to
breeding, but about the person themselves.
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Rodney Tavares
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Because they didn't get rich by thinking a whole lot about
others. At best, getting rich involves ignoring most people
in your life while you pursue wealth, and at worst, it
involves screwing other people over. Either way, it's
naturally the more selfish among us who will pursue
wealth. Nicer people, by nature, take most of their
pleasure and satisfaction in life through interacting with
others. They have love in their lives and are thus less likely
to need to pursue wealth despite the cost of doing so.
Now, there are many exceptions to this. You'll find plenty
of rich people that are nice, and plenty of poor people
who are rude. I'd even say that most poor people are
quite rude as well. It seems that both extremes, rich and
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You must have been thinking that if a person has more

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I’ll let you know soon. I’ll be rich. But there are a lot of rich
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beneath them. There are also some rich people who
would give you the shirt off their back. There are
definitely more rich jerks though than rich kindhearted
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