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People with more money than you suck. There are a broad variety of ways that they can suck, but mostly it's because they have ''more'' than you do. They have more stock options than you, a bigger house than you, a fancier car, probably someone to clean up after themselves, and worst of all, they don't seem to be doing anything to ''fix'' that disparity! At the one end of the spectrum you have the heartless bastard rich guy, whose money might as well be literally coated with the blood of all the little people he's gleefully slaughtered to get where he is. At the other, you have the hopeless geek who's turned his geekiness into a business; he may have more money than you, but at least you can pat yourself on the back for not being a ''nerd'' like he is. Somewhere in the middle you have the snooty, know-nothing [[UpperclassUpper Class Twit|Upper Class Twits]]; these are very popular, but not strictly necessary, as the rich are very rarely portrayed as having earned or deserving their money, even if they built the company that made it for them from the ground up with their own two hands.

* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]''. The members of the Host Club (especially [[UpperclassUpper Class Twit|Tamaki]]) are depicted as well-meaning, but [[The White Prince|hopelessly out of touch]] with the middle- and lower-classes. For example, they regard instant coffee and instant ramen as interesting novelties, and the Hitachiin brothers mistake Haruhi's description of a kiddie pool for that of an inflatable raft.

*** Although, most versions of Tony Stark portray him as having been some level of [[UpperclassUpper Class Twit]] before the near-death experience that pushed him into becoming Iron Man, basically saying that him getting blown up was the act of redemption that turned him from a callous, misguided rich man into a good guy who just happened to have lots of money.

** The positive portrayal of the wealthy is very intentional, the original author [[wikipedia:Little Orphan Annie#Controversy|was highly conservative]] and consequently a huge fan of the self-made businessmen. He used his spite instead on things like labor unions and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|New Deal programs]].

Related to the above, but not strictly the same as it is more about being ''better'' than simply being ''richer''. At best a [[Blue Blood|blueblooded]] person might be portrayed as a [[UpperclassUpper Class Twit|fairly nice but also useless and dimwitted]]. More often they will be portrayed as racist, bullying snobs. These types often have a built-in comeuppance; for all their arrogant conviction that they represent the pinnacle of humanity, they will usually be revealed to be completely broke, having wasted the family fortune and being left with literally nothing but their good names.