No, people don't all leave you because you are struggling with a financial downturn. People are leaving you because you are already exploitative in the first place. And well-adjusted people with normal selfish human needs of love and happiness already left 10 years ago. Because, why do I have to be a masochist? That left you with the only people who put up with your “abuse” are the ones who are equally exploitative in one way or another. And we all know the quality of these “friendships”.