There’s a phrase that I’ve heard a few times, that if someone doesn’t like you, check their bank account and see if it’s affected.

I never liked it because it can justify treating others like they’re above judgement and accountability.

As long as that isn’t compromised they have no regrets in stepping on people to maintain whatever status they have. Even the ones they say they love, so long as they don’t blow the whistle on them.

I can even relate it to the mutation of the phrase “the customer is always right in matters of taste.”

The first part of it is often used by people who demand that their needs must always be met. It’s possible so long as they’re the loudest and most silver-tongued person in the room.

Neither types don’t care about any damage they cause so long as they gain the control or income they receive. Even the other phrase, “a fool and their money are soon parted,” doesn’t matter.

Victory is a drug, but so is playing the victim when they don’t get their way or lose it in a private or public space.

At that point, the audience who knows better than to be that way will feel the same as those affected by their behavior. Saying “oh well” to them the way they did to the people they took down to sit on their self-made throne.

Or in deeper cases, their high castle.

-Kingston Priest