The display of wealth seems to run counter to the responsibility of having wealth. Anyone who is truly wealthy doesn’t need to show it off because they will be invisible to most people. They simply aren’t in the circles most people socialise in. When artists want to display wealth by being in high end hotels, sipping expensive champagne the first thing I think of is they must be insecure.
People do say you need to act a certain way to attract what you want, but it also gives people the wrong message. Wealth isn’t an act of display, it is a responsibility and marker of managing wealth. It is more about responsibility and maintenance than showing a display of excess. The idea of excess isn’t a valid point to make and sure some people make so much money they can show off.
Yet to remain wealthy and build wealth you need the opposite of excess and a general frugality in all things to do with money. I know I sound like an agony aunt but what I am saying is true. Normally these displays are pretty low level compared to true wealth. The only time I met billionaires for example was in China. I have never been in super wealthy circles in Sydney and I know the parades of excess in Sydney are not by the truly wealthy.
The billionaire in China for example was investing in the Taoist hotel and monastery we were visiting. He was there to do business and we had a tea ceremony and it was down to earth. The billionaire was a businessman and family man not some kind of messenger of excess. I suppose I feel people have forgotten the true role of wealth in the west. I did see excess displays of wealth in China as well but it was naive young people trying to look good. It is sad but that’s what people do. Waste good money and never hit the true heights of wealth.
derekjamescarter 
We in the west have lost all our traditions. In preparation for our eventual slaughter we have been atomized on every level. We shoo our elders into ghastly homes filled with other abandoned elders and couples surrender sometimes up to a half of their weekly wage to child care because they both work full time with no other family available to help. We expedite funerals if necessary and have lost all our human rituals for a proper funeral and farewell. Our humanity has fallen so far we are (in my honest opinion) becoming the very items we consume off the shelves at strip malls). The current Pro-noun madness and everything associated with it is the effete material caused by this great atomization. I could go on forever at this point, but will exercise restraint feeling that the point was made or at least touched upon.