A digression, but here's a little story.
Recently I was walking around with a friend, in town. As we started to turn into a certain small street, we passed a grubby old man, sitting on the ground, who looked like a beggar. He looked half-asleep.
My friend said, "See that man? Don't look now, I'll tell you something about him in a moment."
We turned into the street. On both sides of the street, there were little shops, some were selling tourist souvenirs; there were a few small eateries; a watch shop; a small pharmacy; a tailor etc. It was quite a lively street.
My friend said: "Did you know that the old man owns all these shops? He's the landlord. The shop tenants - they all pay rent to him."
There were at least 20 shops on that street.
Rich people come in a wide variety of different forms. Don't ever bother with generalisations like "Rich people are evil". Some of them may be, but then some poor people are evil too. So the generalisation is meaningless. Ernest Hemingway once wrote something like this:
"The rich are different from you and I. They have more money."
And that is really all you can say.
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