How to Identify Fake Friends From Real Friends

As you get richer and more powerful/influential in life, you will accumulate more and more fake friends. These are people who will pretend to care about you in order to derive benefits from you which could be money, contracts, connections, or simply an increase in their own reputation and power by association. But when you need them the most, they will desert you and will not be there for you. Every successful person has some friends like this. The poorer their discernment is, the higher the percentage of fake friends they will have. Over time I’ve found a highly accurate way to identify fake friends from real ones.