Folks,

IMHO, there are only 2 social classes:

1) You are not RICH enough.  Hence, you need to CARE how people think of you.

2) You are RICH enough to live your life INDEPENDENT of how people think of you.

Dreamer

I agree with both bosses  But with exceptions.

"Rich" to different people have different perception. When you are contented with what you have, usually you will feel rich. The number of zeros in your bank account does not matter to define "rich"

But to a greedy man, he will never feel rich.

I involve a lot in business associations. Thus I know a lot of businessmen friends in a few industries. In general (maybe 90%), these rich businessmen do CARE about how people thought about them. And mind you, their businesses are worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions. Some are Datuks and Tan Sri who own a few listed companies. Are they not rich enough ? They drive fancy cars. If a new model is out, they are the first ones to drive and show off to everyone. They wear those expensive watches. They always boost about their overseas trip that cost hundreds of thousand. Children education, wife's designer bags/cloths and even how many mistresses and which famous model became their mistresses ! They always compete against each other. If one friend says out loud his car/watch is not good enough, the friend become his enemy immediately. What does that tell us ? Because they CARE about how people think of them. Are they not rich enough ?

But 1 thing I observed, although they are "monetarily rich", most of them are not really happy 

i think different.

according to the chart edyek spend most time in internet adn social media so should be new affluent worker.

If he/she wanted to move up to elite. Still 3 more steps.