Actor Macaulay Culkin, left, speaks to the media before the premiere of “Richie Rich” at the Mann’s Bruin Theater in Los Angeles, Ca., Saturday, Dec. 17, 1994. Looking on are co-stars Stephi Lineburg, center, and Michael Maccarone.
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In the 1994 movie adaptation of the comic book Richie Rich, Macaulay Culkin plays a boy whose immense wealth keeps him having from a normal, friend-filled childhood. The movie’s happy ending—Richie ditches his stuffy prep-school milieu and becomes rich in friendship with some middle-class kids from the sandlot—points to a reassuring PG-movie morality.

However, according to a new study in Social Psychological and Personality Science, it may actually be high earnings that bestow Americans with the ability to spend more time with friends. Using the results of the General […]