There are a lot of things that are unacceptable only if you’re poor. In fact, if a rich man hoarded a ton of old newspapers, he’d be called an “eccentric collector of vintage print media.” A rich woman with 150 cats would be a “dedicated feline rescue worker.”

A poor guy with a car up on blocks and a stockpile of rifles at his mobile home is “trailer trash,” but put that car in a big garage and the guns in a case at a nice mansion and he’s a “hunter and tinkerer.” A poor farmer trying to stop a highway from being built through her field is “impeding progress,” but if it’s a rich woman’s family estate, she’s “fighting government overreach.” Rich, blithering racist idiots with clear signs of dementia get elected to the Presidency, while Uncle Cletus gets escorted out of the town council meeting and his family is handed a flyer for a memory care facility when he says the same things.

Across the board, there’s stuff that’s normalized and accepted for the wealthy but dismissed and looked down on for the poor. It’s not just that hoarding the money is itself accepted, but also that someone who hoards money will find that all of their other antisocial and concerning behavior is also acceptable in the eyes of the public

Money makes a very effective blindfold.