I’ve spent the past two weeks around people who are new to me: people who are very affluent but respectable enough to hang around. Hmmm.
The takeaway is this: being around “rich” people (and I don’t necessarily mean the said people) is really not my cup of tea. Or at least I don’t care for static wealth — just having money as part of your identity but not really showing any kind of creative genius behind it.
If I would be “rich” and I were hanging around other “rich” people I’d certainly want them to also being doing something cool that predates and precedes their wealth.
They got that way because of what they created, AND managed to retain their humanity. 6/28