There is a widespread, cultural narrative that the nouveau riche often spends more lavishly, show off more liberally and blow through wealth much faster than their understated, generationally wealthy counterparts. After all, who can forget The Great Gatsby’s portrait of a refined, aristocratic East Egg versus a gaudy and garish West Egg?
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