Are you suggesting that you are trying to "fake" your social status and standard of living when you meet a rich person? I wonder how that would work. Do you buy expensive clothing and accessories? Do you rent a luxurious car or something? 
This can't work out in the long term.
This can't work out in the long term.Lets figure out what is the definition of "make it". To become rich and successful? My formed colleague used to fake expensive life. She wore fake branded clothes and tried to visit every event where rich people could be (opening of a new club, restaurant, fashion shows and etc), posted a lot of pictures from vacation. It all ended with getting married with a person who I think is rich. Faking expensive life helped her to make contacts with with rich people, be among them and arrange a wealthy life for herself.
Value is placed more on the material things than the individual possessing them and you begin to see situations where only wealthy people role with each other, marry each other's children and continue to circulate the wealth around them, while the average or poor man is left to fend for hiis survival. There are situations where I also have to embrace this style not because it is something I cherish but because you have to sometimes play into the gallery of these class of people to penetrate them.