Most of the ultra wealthy are terrified of losing their wealth because it’s all they have. The poor have had to build character, figure out who they are and spend every day resisting in some small way those with more power or become broken shells of people.
The ultra wealthy have seldom faced such choices and are usually the ones doing the crushing. I remember reading Bill Gates autobiography in the ’90’s and realizing that this was a man who had never known failure or lost in any meaningful way.
It is the terror of having to deal with the unknowns of failure, loss, and lack of control that drives many of the ultra rich to pursue ever increasing wealth at all costs.
The simple courage of getting up to exhausted, going to an unfulfilling job for meager pay, knowing it is another day of life and dreams lost forever, but doing it anyway, day after day after day, because your loved ones depend on you doing so… This is courage few of any of the ultra wealthy will ever have, and indeed most ridicule.
I suspect because deep down they know that they couldn’t do it.