Do very rich people care more about loyalty?

[jennifer_bloom]

One thing I notice in the very rich people I know - ones with Ivy League degrees in medicine, or Wall Street jobs, or hundreds of employees underneath them, is they are very loyal to the people who loved and respected them when they were poor. My dad has a very good friend that he's know ever since he was a poor graduate student in Canada doing his first Canadian certified degree. His friend is filthy rich now and used to buy us $1500 wines when he visited our home and his daughter has Ivy League MBAs at schools that might be more selective then Yale, but he still cherishes us and prioritizes us as if we were gold. The Ivy League doctors I know, also stay friends with guys who make a little more than $20 an hour that they met over a decade ago as a poor under grad student. Why is it like this? Is it because all the people they talk to now are not necessarily real friends but those who want clout? My cousin was always dating Ivy League bankers and surgeons and one of her best friends in her 30s weighed around 300 pounds and they met when they were high school students. She is not threatened by beautiful woman because most of her friends look better then her.

[21Cowboy21]

Its more that from your perspective they are rich - but not in the ways that may actually matter most to humans.

They probably feel a lot more rich when they come to visit you guys - or other rich friends who were also they're friends when they were poor likely earlier in life. These would be the few people who may actually make them feel eith certainty that they are there for them - because they care about and love them as individual humans - not becuase they are rich or not. Others may be the same way if they met them later in life - they may still be great people too - but the rich person may struggle to know with certainty as well if those new friends are there for them - or just there for clout/status chasing and splash handouts or benefits over time for the persons money.

Two of my uncles are execs at large international companies, childless both, and several are still well off as engineers. They have close friends who they went to high school with that they are usually far happier with than not most times for this reason - rather than with their other new rich friends (and probably goes vice versa).

[molonski2]

Certainly in Asian culture , and I find that here , successful individuals who were not necessarily born into money and extremely grateful to those who helped form their success , they see it as a part of karma , partly religious.

Now , super rich farang , I think it depends on family values , were they born into money initially? I think the reactions are a little different. Now , if I were a super rich USA business man , yeah , I think I'd be very grateful to those who were in the picture on the way up , and I'd be super cautious on who I kept close.