There is a paradox here: people tend to want wealth to signal to others that they should be liked and admired. But in reality those other people ofte… - Morgan Housel

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There is a paradox here: people tend to want wealth to signal to others that they should be liked and admired. But in reality those other people often bypass admiring you, not because they don’t think wealth is admirable, but because they use your wealth as a benchmark for their own desire to be liked and admired.