C&P
If you carry the core belief that money is bad and rich people are evil, chances are you came by it honestly. At some point in your life you learned either through instruction from adults or through direct experience that someone wealthier than you engaged in some nefarious behavior or exhibited some undesirable trait. Therein lays the problem. The fact is that some people do take advantage of others on their way to accumulating wealth. Every now and then a Madoff comes along to drive home the point. However, when this stereotype is applied to all wealthy people, and money is seen as bad in itself, it can become self-limiting.

If you, your family or your community have come to associate wealth with evildoing, how likely are you to accumulate any money yourself? Not very. The psychological cost would be too high. You would become one of "those people." Your friends and family members would look at you differently. You would no longer belong. This explains, in part, why many people who come into sudden money, through an inheritance, insurance settlement, or lottery win, get rid of it quickly. As those close to you learn that your financial situation has changed, it can quickly become uncomfortable. It also explains, in part, why many people unconsciously sabotage their financial success, believing that wealth and integrity cannot coexist
Mind Over Money

And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God - Matthew 19:24.

I'm one of those who believe majority of the rich are unnecessarily stingy. I have this rich guy,net worth of over 2mn $,but the guy always finds ways of the "poor" to foot his bill. Before you get to enjoy a penny of his,you will have spent several on him.
It's also near impossible for him to lend you money,but your average friends will.
Money is good, but it tends to get into peoples' mind and i think it has a lot to do with the upbringing.
Once one starts seeing money as everything, they are as good as finished.
Money is not everything, it's one of the many things that makes life tick.
Happiness is everything and more often than not,that eludes the rich.

PS; My definition of rich is having more than you will ever need, you and your family.

I once watched a crime film (I forget the title) where one of the mobsters remarked that to control a turf, you have to be willing to fight to the death, even for 5 dollars.
People usually start well, then when they have a nice pile of cash, they realized that sharks are circling; because when you get up there, people are absolutely ruthless. Turkeys can't fly with eagles. You trade your soul (or a part of it) to stay on top. Its just the way it is.

Unless being wealthy was not your original objective, and it just happened as a by-product

Food Sacrificed to Idols

1 Cor 8

4 So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.” 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), 6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.

7 But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. 8 But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

9 Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? 11 So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12 When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.

Also see this http://www.propheticrevelation.net/misc/fib.htm

A rich fulfilling life requires a balance of generosity and miserness, saving and spending. Either extreme is not as good.

Very tricky balance!!