I had a friend with generational wealth, and I truly believe it ruined her life. She has no career. She starts things like businesses and organizations and then drops them when they get hard, not understanding that there's always a hard stage that can give way to a satisfying sense of accomplishment if you keep working hard and pushing through. I felt she tried to influence me with cash. I wouldn't accept any, and this angered her. At one point she rented a beachfront AirBnb for my family for a week without my consent and tried to insist we accept it, and when I declined, she was pissed. But this had become a sick pattern of her trying to get me to take money and gifts. I began to feel like a Victorian paid companion, except I didn't want pay. Money means something ENTIRELY different to her than it does to me. She wastes eye-popping amounts of cash. She fritters away more than my family's entire income without giving it a thought, and she's used to being able to purchase anything she wants, including people. When she finally had to accept that I was not for sale, she stormed off.