The thing about money is that it has always mattered, often in ways you didn't notice.
Take a teenage guy with rich parents who goes to high school in the nice part of town
- The girls are hotter
- The parties are better
- The friends he makes are better because they come from wealthy families
- He gets to go off to a nice school in most cases and know kids there since they went to his high school
- He knows what to do in college and what not to do to get laid
- He joins a frat and parents can pay for his dues
- Parents can afford to send him on spring break and nice vacations
- He already has an "in" with hot girls since he grew up along some of them
He is the rich kid and he gets to live that nice rich kid life they rave about so much in movies. Most kids in poor high schools do not get to live that life, take the poor kid.
- Goes to a high school where safety is an issue
- Girls are generally ugly, trashy, and even dangerous to be around (World Star!)
- No vacations or fancy trips for him
- Goes into college lost compared to the rich kid
- Has to work through college instead of having fun
It's not money, it's the circumstances it brings that make the difference. All of the rich slayers and playboys that started at a young age, the type everyone raves about, they grew up wealthy. Even Dan Bilzerian had a rich father and could afford to do fun stuff with the money.
Money isn't everything, it's the only thing, especially when it comes through indirectly and that is what it is, it comes through indirectly. You don't see the green itself, you see its effects.