People who are fond of displaying wealth create a sort of pressure with a ripple effect, which drives some course of action from people who are meant to do things differently

I agree with this point because take for instance your friends leave in their own home while you stay in a rented BQ or probably they are driving a car and you don't ave one....there is this pressure that comes with it.
If that person want to do things differently he would definitely want to work hard to be like them or even more than them....but sometimes it can really be depressing and challenging.