I’ve met some pretty wealthy people in my life and it seems that wealth and modesty as well as wealth and a pleasant character go together quite frequently (ok,

I’ve met some pretty wealthy people in my life and it seems that wealth and modesty as well as wealth and a pleasant character go together quite frequently (ok, there are lots of exceptions but the fact is that in my limited sample the nice people definitely win out). The traits of modesty[a] and a pleasant character are fairly common regardless of financial status. I think that first and foremost, we are people, and the yawning chasms we often see between our identified group and those groups we are not part of, are largely exaggerations of perception more than anything else and are miniscule compared to the differences you can find between two people who are supposed to be part of the same group. There is an exchange between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway where Fitzgerald is supposed to have said "The rich are different from us." To which Hemingway apparently replied, "Yes, they have more money." I'm with Hemingway on this one. [a] - well, modest for humans anyway. A lot of people think that their group is pretty special on the scale of the universe, which seems to be a normal form of a general species-level arrogance that is pretty funny if you really think about it for a while, but other than that, I think modesty is fairly common.