I’ve vacationed in areas where wealthy and wealth adjacent people mingle and what strikes me is how hard the wealth-adjacent people spend money to look like wealth, while the truly wealthy are often like the old guy who stopped caring and just wears flip flops and some beat up tee shirt.
Edit: this is in the US, wealth in EU tends to look differently due to a third tier: Nobility.
Edit: this is in the US, wealth in EU tends to look differently due to a third tier: Nobility.