5. Money Is Power Without Substance
This is a dramatic or poetic way of saying people can get addicted to purchasing status symbols and greasing palms. It’s easy as a wealthy person to lose touch with the fact that nobody is doing anything for you out of the goodness of his or her heart. Use money as the key to the city, buying your way to the front of the line and through red satin ropes, buying prestige in the form of Ducatis, yachts, and bottle service, and you’ll soon find nobody has any actual respect for you and your actual accomplishments; in the end, people will forget how you made your millions and the illusion of true prestige and political power will disappear as your cash does.
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