I used to be friends with a dude who was born in intense poverty, shot up into the 1% as the CEO of a medical tech company in the 90’s, lost everything in 2008, and died on welfare eating in soup kitchens.

He once told me that when he was rolling in it he was part of a bougie cigar club even though he wasn’t super into cigars. I asked him why and he said, “I dunno, man. It’s what you do. When you’ve got money, you spend it.”