But it is not only the "rich man" at his worst who succumbs to the "pride" or delusion of belonging to the real "upper class". A very large group of terrestrial human beings also cherish the same idea that being the owner of great material assets shows true moral greatness or "wealth" in the absolute sense. And as they do not possess this material wealth, and do not have the ability to create it, but nevertheless are hungering and thirsting for being able to enjoy the same admiration and "honour" as that given to the "rich man" or the "upper class", they try, with the relatively limited means they have at their disposal, to copy the appearance of the "rich man" as well as they can, in order thereby to give their surroundings the idea that they belong to the rank of "rich men" or the above-mentioned "upper class". They surround themselves as much as possible with a show of the same luxury and elegance as the "rich man". The only difference is that while the "rich man" owns the luxury with which he surrounds himself, the other party only hires it or, at best, acquires it only after many years of paying instalments, so that it does not become his property until it is nearly worn out.
      One can hire a horse, a riding habit, a dinner jacket and dress suit as well as a luxurious car and the other props that are needed to "lord it". And thus we see how vanity or the thirst for the admiration of others debases or falsifies even the already "artificial" upper class. It is also this thirst to make others believe that one is a magnate or representative of a "higher" cultural stage that, at its culmination or extreme, turns its progenitors into so-called "dandies", "pampered women" "zoot suiters" or other kinds of representatives of very poorly camouflaged "vanity".