No reason to make it even worse. Some rich guy I know wanted to show me his art collection, a whole bunch of non-descript stuff that sold for an immense amount of money. All I could think was to encourage him to buy more art: his money would be in better hands if it flowed back into the world through the artists. Then I learned that it is just a speculative thing, that there is a whole industry around this and that the artists see almost nothing of the money. But the galleries, the 'connoisseurs', the auction houses and the brokers all make bank. And they too are rich people... quite frustrating.

My grandmother was a walking collection of proverbs and one of the more pointy ones was 'the devil always shits on the larger heap'. I'm not sure if the meaning comes across in English but the gist is that once you're wealthy more wealth is pretty much guaranteed whereas the poor just get poorer.