My longtime friend group includes someone who's become really successful and wealthy, and now every time we try to plan something together it gets weird because they can afford things the rest of us can't, but they also seem hurt when we suggest cheaper alternatives. We're all tiptoeing around money and it's killing the easy intimacy we used to have.
More people experience this than they realize.
A community is learning that significant changes in relative resources require explicitly renegotiating how they make decisions and share experiences.
“Where Are You with Ancestor veneration across traditions?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.