The Newly Rich rebelled against what they perceived to be the tyranny of a dying class. They butchered their objects of emulation sometimes, physically. Realizing their inability to be what they always aspired to be, the Newly Rich switched from frustration and permanent humiliation to aggression, violence and abuse. 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. And as children are they can be cruel, insensitive, unable to delay the satisfaction of their urges and desires. There, they spun off a malignant, pathological, form of crony capitalism.