Still, millionaires aren’t devoid of relationship issues. In some ways, they can experience wholly unique ones, because “the world is not very compassionate to that kind of trouble and pain,” Amanda Clayman, a financial therapist who hosts Fresh Produce Media’s Audible series “Emotional Investment,” told Business Insider.

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    Self-made millionaires tend to have a few distinct qualities. For one, their relationship with money can differ from that of their friends. They might focus more on long-term financial goals and be more stringent about saving.

    When Lane Kawaoka became a millionaire by buying rental properties, he realized his newfound wealth was making him feel lonely. Much of it had to do with differing mindsets.

    Ah yes, self-made. Generating money from the aether thru the purchase of real estate. Not hoarding housing and leeching off of the value created by others.

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      This is how you can tell who would own slaves.

      They didn’t create the slave they are merely profits from the utility.

      These are the people religions have tried to reign in but to little avail. Some people are less human than others and it’s the people who behave like this.

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        Woah now, let’s not pretend religions aren’t a man made system to control and pacify people in their own way.

        Religion isn’t trying to reign in particularly actively evil people out of the goodness of their creator’s hearts, it merely seeks to make them and the other masses meek and kept in line so they themselves can make the rules.

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    In my experience, it’s because as part of becoming millionaires they also become obnoxious money-obsessed losers who are totally unenjoyable to talk to

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      I’ve known only one person with money as a friend and the only reason they were tolerable was because they never brought it up. They were just very successful at what they did and made really good money doing it, but that was only a slice of the type of person they were.

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        So he was still a worker, like the rest of us. I think that makes a pretty big difference.

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          That could be anything from a high paying profession to owning a business.

          It is likely more that the struggles of people with wealth are going to sound like pitiful willing to the struggles of people without wealth. To maintain the friendships across economic classes, wealth isn’t discussed.

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        I had a friend that complained to me a few times about not feeling wealthy. This is someone with a household income 15X what I did.

        After that I couldn’t not judge all the money being carelessly spent in front of me.

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    only because friends millionaires are to there to leech of them, and millionaire themselves are detached from actual frienships because of how they behave around money.

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      only because friends millionaires are there to leech off them

      Seems only fair, since it is virtually impossible to amass millions without leeching off of society as a whole.

      I’ll admit there may be a few good millionaires, but that’s only because greedflation has made it so that a million isn’t what it used to be.