"The rabbi came to a rich Jew and asked for a contribution to the poor. The alrightnik refused. 'They are nothing but lazy loafers! Their poverty is their own fault!'" (NJY)

"It is a response both mocking and affectionate, not simple hostility but something much more complicated and knowing: the tenement crowd observing, with mixed amusement and suspicion, the rise of an alrightnik [nouveau riche in Yiddish] to Park Avenue." (source)