Can y'all recommend me any books about dangers of wealth? Any book that will show the downside of wealth, losing wealth through financial mismanagement, anything to do with human relationships when money is on the line etc. I'm looking for fiction books mainly, not looking for personal finance books. I want to be lost in a story of someone who had money but that money corrupted them.
Posted Feb 15, 2022, 7:54 PM UTC
The Pearl (John Steinbeck)
{Andrew Carnegie} is a great biography that shows a lot of the pitfalls of wealth, with the added benefit of being true
^(By: David Nasaw | 896 pages | Published: 2006 | Popular Shelves: biography, history, biographies, business, non-fiction)
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The Great Gatsby comes to mind as well as The House of Mirth. The House of Mirth is interesting because it investigates the complexity of a protagonist who is high-status, but cash-poor, and how her life, especially as a woman in the time in which she lives, becomes very precarious because of this. There’s also The Portait of a Lady by Henry James.
This is neither a book nor non-fiction. It’s a news article. It’s about a older dude, fairly successful and happy, who won the lottery. Enjoy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/10/24/jack-whittaker-powerball-lottery-winners-life-was-ruined-after-m-jackpot/