[throwaway132448]

You have it backwards. The person didn’t change, they were always like that, long before money. Our system selects for them and rewards them, and when they attain those rewards they use them to further express themselves as the person they always were.

[bombcar]

This is the truth of the matter - everyone else got off the train at millions or a small billion; the only people who ride it all the way to trillions are the pathologies.

[Schiendelman]

We used to say the pathologies were the ones who made it to a billion! Times change. :)

[thisisit]

Quite often money is equated with intelligence and with time people want their opinion on everything under the sun - especially on things outside their area. With time so much smoke has been blown up their ass that they think they are better than everyone and can get away with mistreating people. Money does impact people.

[k__]

This.

Directors of small companies are the same, they're just not wealthy enough that they could do any harm.