lol, maybe you were just bad at it?
But seriously - rich people very publicly demonstrate over and over again how susceptible they are to ingratiating yes-men. Trump himself is a great example, along with Musk. I mean Musk basically took himself down the rabbit hole because he was so addicted to the flood of sycophantic attention he got from the likes of Catturd. Certainly there are rich people out there who are discerning and don't put up with BS, but there are plenty whose vanity is easily appealed to by people looking to manipulate them for wealth, power, or whatever else. They are constantly getting taken advantage of, they just don't really notice or care.