Mr. Adam screamed " All my savings gone? Who asked them to bring me here?" Does this story strike any memories in you? It does right?
You fooled your colleagues back in junior high school to buy ice cream with their transport fare promising to "lap" them when going back home, but failed. You rode, they trekked.
You went with a group of friends to a restaurant to eat, and when it was payment time, you sneaked out to the bathroom came back but they were all gone telling the waiter that you were going to pay once you come back from the bathroom. It was payback, they said and laughed off.
What's your story?
You're asking for stories on how people ripped off and took advantage of their friends? No decent people do such things, especially over their whole life as your story suggests. You're not a very nice person if you do such things and I think the moral of the story was actually something different. It was that this man put wealth before his health, he would rather have died a rich man than have the money he had been saving spent on helping him get better. Some people are like that and there is no point being a rich old man, as you get the best years of your life when you are young. It's harder to explore and enjoy lots of activities when you get older, so make the most of life now.