Most people with money and by this I mean the comfortable but not rich class of people ($500,000 - $5,000,000) net worth are a lot more low key than you’d expect because it doesn’t make financial sense to splurge on most things. And you can get to this level with a good career or a business and some financial literacy. Now if you’re super rich (over $20,000,000), then whatever. They can do whatever they want. The problem is most people you see spending crazy amounts of money, buying all sorts of idiotic things aren’t super rich. They’re in the comfortable class (making six figures with potential to be a millionaire one day) but instead of building wealth they waste it trying to appear richer than they are. You’d be surprised all them McMansions that cost $750,000 are filled with people on the edge of bankruptcy
meanwhile the dude in a Ford Jeep in a 4 Bedroom $300k house got a million on deck. But all this goes out of the window when you go onto the super rich stratosphere (mostly cacs). Through work and business I been around a lot of people with so much money it makes you have an existential crisis.
People in the hood killing over $200 sneakers. People not able to finish school over a couple thousand dollars or losing their house over a small tax bill and you see cacs with $19 million in their account burning through $100,000 every month
