People genuinely admire the rich. I think some cultural norms/lessons with good intentions may have backfired and made it even worse. I remember being taught not to be jealous of others, not to compare myself to them, not to keep up with the Joneses, and that a person can do whatever they want if they put their mind to it and work hard.

Those might individually be good things for one to practice, and I am going to keep doing so.

But at the same time... those lessons are not supposed to be taken as bidirectional rules of nature! A good person doing those things does not imply that a billionaire is the rare individual that is 1000x visionary and hard working, 1000x not to be envied or judged, and 1000x deserving. Oh yeah, 1000x noble and not at all 1000x sociopathic or obsessed.