Actually, not speaking for Hal, but it’s not automatic at all. I know plenty of happy, fulfilled rich people with plenty of close-knit relationships. Equally, I know many poor miserable assholes who go home to their sterile toys.
No, it’s not a generalization. It’s a SPECIFIC reaction to the fact that you’re pretty much an unrepentant asshole who has views that seem nearly calculated to alienate you from your fellow humans.
I’d agree that my views are calculated to alienate me from liberal douches, but thankfully you guys haven’t completely hijacked the minds of all other humans yet (but it’s only Obama’s first term, so he’s got time).
I’m about as solidly centrist conservative as you can get, so that dog don’t hunt.
Congratulations! You’re now the second person, in ten years on the Dope, to make my Ignore List. Don’t bother with a snarky reply, hoss. I’ll never see it. 
OK, well, liberal douches and you, then, apparently.
Could be… or maybe they’d have asked 200 for the bed from someone else. Who knows.
Yeah, OK, I already admitted to being a stupidhead, OK?
Shocked, I am, that you don’t have any concept of what is and what is not the decent thing to do in a given situation.
Zeriel already covered it nicely, but just to reiterate – there is zero need for any generalization here. There are only two possibilities: either the persona you utilize here is your true self, in which case you most certainly do fit the “poor rich man” stereotype; or it’s not your true self, in which case you’re simply a troll.
Either/or – you’re useless.
Whats that old joke?
“Well, you know, you can’t take it with you…”
“Then I’m not going!”
Hal, there’s an interesting (well, to me, anyway) parallel between your attitude about Gary and your attitude about me, and I think it typifies the liberal douche mindset. Namely, you think that people who don’t agree with you are morally inferior to you.
We know morally inferior when we see it.
Your moral inferiority has nothing to do with our disagreement.
Bear in mind that to extremists, “solidly centrist conservative” is pretty much the same thing as “liberal douche.”
Shouldn’t people feel free to feel their own emotions and not the emotions suggested by people who are missing the point?
Personally I am mad that you do not send me your paychecks.
What does it say about you that you spend your time here alienating people?
Just fighting ignorance hansel. And I’ve found the motherlode here at the SDMB.
And how successful do you think you’ve been?
Not very. Those who know The Truth (eg, religious zealots, liberal douches) often don’t like listening to reason. But I’m trying.
If you were to adopt a more reasonable tone (i.e., if your essential posture was less about alienating the douches), do you think you’d be more successful or less?
Very.