Why do so many people have to act like being rich means having power over people?

Question

I'm sorry, but from what I've noticed, too many people act like having lots of money means having power over people & it's driving me insane!

Answer 1

so many people are "jock riders". what do you think a posse or entourage is? people will follow money and try to help you spend it all. the people with money know this and feel empowered by it. this is where the attitude comes from.  like the old saying goes "nobody wants you when you're down and out".  

Answer 2

Unfortunately, money talks.

Answer 3

yeah, i know what you mean. it's like they think because they have more money, they are a higher power than people with less money, it's stupid...

Answer 4

Because its a fact of life and it doesn't matter what decade, what century, what country, what nationality, what race, or what religion you examine....

Answer 5

It is sad to say that most people who have wealth also have more power. Even cops give more credence to the statement of a wealthy person over a poor person! IN the united states we expect that every person will have civil rights and that each one will have the same amount of rights, but let me tell you a story.

A crazy white man in a truck hit me while I was driving in my car on the freeway. He was upset because he tried to cut me off and I didn't let him.

He smashed into my car (I was not externally injured) the highway patrol man (mexican) just let him off - said he didn't think someone like that would do that, the officer refused to write my report as I stated it!!!! He substituited 'rammed into' for accidentally hit. You have no idea what injustice is until that happens. Power comes in many degrees, money power is perhaps even more potent than patriarchial power.

Answer 6

Well I'm with you if you had all the money in the world but you had no on in your life it would seem pointless to me..

And if you had friends, you'd always have in the back of your mind, are they my friends cause they really like me as a person or because I'm rich and gonna give gifts stuff like that???

And I also look at it this way, don't matter if your rich or your dirt broke we all put our pants on one leg at a time...

Answer 7

Because those types of people are egotistical and want fame and that stuff for attention to make them seem all big.

Answer 8

money=power