Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at least in public. Nobody wants the stigma of being thought poor.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

Wow..is there anything you can't do?

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess."
- Ch. 5