>>21780664i feel great about it OP thanks for asking
my favorite is when i interact with them directly for example when i go to a big city for a conference for work and i can see firsthand just how much of a difference money makes in a person's life, the confidence and self-possession that comes from having one's needs met and a reasonable level of security surrounding work and leisure and autonomy
more than anything else i think money allows a person the freedom to work towards and eventually meet their goals, whatever that might be. it gives more support, more resources, more chances, a luck modifier, an extra dice roll
and, one thing i think most non-rich people don't fully understand is how much being rich is a networking thing. it isn't the money itself it's the aura surrounding money. it's the circles that money moves in, starting from birth or before birth- your parents friends, your grandparents coworkers, the parents of your classmates, the private school and summer camp you go to, the internship you get, your first job. it is truly an elite class.
for me, who has never been part of that class but have bounced off the edges of it as part of work, i experience it as something like a breakaway civilization or a separate sub-species of human. there is as much difference between the guy sitting next to me at the food bank wearing sweatpants and a 25 year old BCG consultant at a meet-and-great for green investments in Dubai as there are between sub-species of sparrows that have evolved on different continents.
Another thing is how money pervades every aspect of your being. not just clothes and skincare, or even language and etiquette, I'm talking the way you see and interact with reality and the world. instead of being a mountain to climb, a battle to fight, a closed door, reality is more like a game you know you're going to win. being rich is the justified expectation of victory, because you know the odds are in your favor.
