This has always been happening all the time.

There is even an old chinese proverb "laugh at the poor, don't laugh at prostitutes" which means poor people are looked down on more than prostitutes. As long as you got money, people respect you.

Not necessarily, I always think it's all based on luck.
Look at Ms Puiyi, do you think she is beautiful?

Have you ever been to restaurants where the food is not that good, but yet people queuing for it crazily. Then there are restaurants with good food, but somehow just don't have that many customers.

It's all luck or fengshui. Call me superstitious but I have seen it with my own eyes all these years. Luck do exist, no matter how science try to disprove it.