Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.
Where wealth is concerned, individuals aren't stuck in little boxes. You don't start out wealthy, stay wealthy, and end wealthy.
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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