Not all of those who can afford to but too many otherwise! What is it about wealth that makes people look at others with such disdain and condescension? Do they feel like they are ordained or somehow cosmically selected to be better? Is it their sense of privilege and advantage that makes them discount the value that each life possesses? Is it their fear that they will be used and abused by those who must secretly want everything they have obtained? Is that why they build homes in protected communities so as not to rub shoulders with the dirty unclean masses? I can go on and on about why people who have achieved success, either honestly or dishonestly, and the possibilities for their separation from humanity but it does all boil down to a couple of traits. They have achieved success and want to have it all so to speak, or they have had it all the entirety of their lives and don't know or want to know how to live without being somehow majestic. My simple living of life has shown me much. I have been a man among men so the idea that wealth differentiated us on the same level with raw courage and selfless sacrifice is absurd. Wealth is not an indicator of overall value, it is only a means for barter. Strength and courage of conviction have a higher value with me so the dandies who feel the power of their wealth as some type of ascension to being a greater being have surely deluded their own sense of self worth. What so troubles me is that I am fortunate to know that I have validated my existence by being a good man without the accumulation of wealth being involved. Yet there are so many people out there who have not reached that plane of consciousness that allows them to be satisfied with self worth. Instead they are beholden to aspects of greed that not only are an illusion of self worth but that also destroy the lives of the many who are without because of the greed of a few.
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