Consider the high five given!
It's very sad because it's true. I have seen the same kind of thing over and over again. People bragging of their amazing rich life style when they have cried in my company about the horrendous debt they are in and such stuff. It is a viral kind of madness.
To understand the current behavior of general human population on the internet, we will have to go back at least two centuries and see what abundance and progress have done to the human psychology. It has been wired in us to act in a certain way or the world will think of us in way that makes us feel uncomfortable.
The brainwashing has been strong.
It has been, hopefully we can move away from some of it as it becomes apparent