“Money’s a fucking curse, he said. It cuts out all the hard work. Before you had to be kind or funny or fun. Interesting or intelligent. You had to take the time to know people. You had solidarity with them. Then you’re rich. It annihilates everything. Everyone is nice to you. Everyone wants you there. You’re the most popular person in the room. It’s so easy to be charming when you’re rich. Everyone laughs at your jokes and hangs on your word. You forget and think its about you. Then sometimes you go somewhere and you don’t spend, and it’s so miserable, it’s so horrible to go back to the drawing board, and you’ve forgotten how to earn somebody’s trust or love, and you know its easier with a shortcut or two, so you bring out cash in the end, the wad, the clip, the card, and the thrill of it is greater, because they didn’t know, and now they do. You’re rich. You’re in charge. They love you. Money’s a fucking curse.”
Deepti Kapoor, “Age of Vice”, 2023
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