People with too much money have always been courted, envied and feted, but Britain, in common with most other Western societies in the first decade of the 21st century, has gone beyond merely paying court to filthy lucre.
When I wrote How to Get Rich I was trying to do something ever-so-slightly new. I was attempting to point out, again and again, in every way I could, the terrible price that the self-made rich must pay to become rich.
The ownership of too much money leads immediately to fear of its loss. This, in turn, will lead to the waste of massive amounts of time and energy to defend it. The arrival of too much money will also lead to a form of paranoia that everyone is after it (as, indeed, they are).
In addition, too much money leads to intellectual stupidity unless one exercises great care - the arrogant belief that you have to be super-smart to get super-rich. Not to mention the damage that such workaholics do to any form of family life, especially in their relations with their children. Never yet have I met a child of a rich, self-made man who 
