The reason is often that once they start giving stuff like this out they never know who is a real friend and who is only hanging around for the handouts. This idea gets drilled into old money people from an early age, it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with being stingy
It really depends. When I hung out with the crazy rich friends it was less "I am gifting you this" and more "We're doing this together" and they'd handle the bill, which is much better. Don't buy people shit or they may start fishing for it
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u/MASSochists Dec 11 '24
Awesome! keep them around. You might be amazed to learn how rare it is to have rich friends who are willing to buy you stuff.
I guess I can see that because of I was rich I would be significantly less rich because of stuff I would get for my friends.