A non-ideal life is a step towards financial destruction and what should be pursued first is better financial ability while to fulfill a lifestyle, we must see how far the balance between income and expenses is.
Sure that is true and I also think that what can contribute to such lifestyle in certain places is when someone feels comfortable with what they are seeing around them. Like there are people who are not quite rich in his generation but because they have access to properties, lands etc they can be living lavishly without thinking of how to utilize the inheritance. This kind of attitude are real where you see some people buying cars that are expensive, phones yet they don't have knowledge of investment for the future to bequeath to the upcoming generation. Well some people only want to enjoy now and let tomorrow think for itself.
I have a few friends who have that kind of life, they do not have to work and they just make rent income and they live a lavish lifestyle. It is quite sad really, not for them of course but for me. Because I work about 10-12 hours a day, and I can't even live a decent life and have bunch of debt, whereas they do not even work but because they were born into the "rich" family, they do not have to work a single day and never have to worry about money ever again.
I work about 60 hours a week, and make about 20% of what they make, when they spend all of that time reading, traveling, or just being lazy in general if they feel like it. That feels unfair of course, but you start to learn to just accept life isn't fair and you move on.