Successful men may play around with women, which is certainly shallow in that respect, but they don’t seem to flaunt their income.
New money is a different story.
Why is that?
I thought Marika’s answer was incredibly logical.
If “rich → humble” is supposed to be true, then since a self-made millionaire is also rich, they should be humble too.
But the moment the questioner wrote, “Self-made millionaires are different,” it already implied:
Rich people—including self-made millionaires—aren’t necessarily humble.
So the proposition “rich → humble” doesn’t hold up.
Maybe the questioner already understood, on some level, that wealthy people aren’t necessarily more humble, but asked anyway.
Moreover, I think there are humble self-made millionaires, just as there are people from generations-old wealthy families who aren’t humble.
The premise of the question itself is flawed.
Also, the questioner writes about self-made millionaires as if they’re somehow bad. But a self-made millionaire is someone whose parents weren’t wealthy, yet who became rich through their own abilities. Meanwhile, someone who isn’t self-made may simply have been born into a wealthy family, so we don’t know whether they became rich through their own merit.
If anything, I find people who became wealthy through their own abilities more impressive.
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There are rich people who aren’t nouveau riche but still have bad personalities,
and nouveau riche people with good personalities.
There are wealthy people with kind personalities,
ugly guys with bad personalities,
beautiful women with good personalities,
and even unattractive women with bad personalities.
Why is that?
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If you’re distinguishing nouveau riche people from the wealthy, then the idea that “the richer someone is, the more humble they are” doesn’t really hold up in the first place.
It just comes down to the individual, doesn’t it?
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Nice to meet you, everyone. I’m “Shirousa,” a new answerer here. I look forward to helping you all.
My take is that it’s about considering how the other person might feel. If you talk about your income, upbringing, possessions, and so on, people will either look at you with envy or resent you. If they’re going to resent you, it’s probably better to keep things a little vague and let them assume you’re doing well.
So don’t ask your papa (a male supporter) crude questions like, “How much do you make a year?” At most, just say something like, “You must make pretty good money, huh?”
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