I think all rich people believe they earn it themselves, even their kids believe themselves to have earned the money of their parents.
I like it. As a capitalist pig (by almost anyone else’s standard), I love to rake my money into a big pile and dive into it naked and head first. Yes it’s a great pile of hardness and it makes me hard to know it’s all mine. MINE MINE MINE. I’d rather burn it than give it away! AH, HA HA HA HA!!! I light my cigars with 100 dollar bills and wipe my ass with the change! OK I’m being ridiculous, but my parents did OK by investing in IBM and Marvel way back in the 60s when nobody knew what those things even were. So, now I have trust fund money (more than I really need) and some nice things to go with it - I’m not ashamed of any of it. I give a lot to charity, and volunteer at many charity functions in my neighborhood. I do give away money because it’s honestly a good feeling. And I have to say (as unpopular as it may be) that my friends who are rich are not some kind of robotic inhuman exploiters of other people.
