They exaggerated gestures and mannerisms, they transformed refined and delicate art to kitsch, their speech became hyperbole, their social associations dictated by ridiculously rigid codes of propriety and conduct. As in similar psychological situations, patricide and matricide followed. The Newly Rich rebelled against what they perceived to be the tyranny of a dying class. These new converts turned against the founders of their newly found religion with the rage and conviction reserved to true but disappointed believers. Regardless of the method of inheritance adopted by the New Rich, all of them share some common characteristics.
Psychologists know that money is a love substitute.
People accumulate it as a way to compensate themselves for past hurts and deficiencies. They attach great emotional significance to the amount and availability of their money. They fight over property, territory and privileges in a Jungian archetypal manner. He is an economic and political columnist in many periodicals in a few countries and a published and awarded author of short fiction and reference books in Hebrew, English and Macedonian in Israel, Macedonia and the Czech Republic. He is serving currently as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia.