One, the most obvious reason : Pearl is a good person Pearl is known to be generous, to care a lot about others and to be willing to spend money to help everyone. We see it when she's helping Eight in the metro, not hesitating a single second to help her out with money
(fun fact, she didn't ask for her to give it back. Cuttlefish did) We also see it with Marina, who lives with her (and probably has for years now) and who she took care of when she was an homeless teenager and very vulnerable.
Two, Pearl's personality isn't just money. We don't love Pearl because she's crazy rich, it's not her only characteristic. We love her because she's unhinged, because she's sweet and caring, because she's funny ... She's not Scrooge McDuck in squid form.
Of course, it would be stupid to deny that money plays an important part in her character. But ask anyone who isn't too familiar with Splatoon to describe pearl and I doubt that "rich" would be one of the first things to come to their mind
Three, Pearl is close the punk scene, and it seems that she grew up in this environment as a young adult. Punks are inherently linked to concepts like anticapitalism, anarchy (y'know, team chaos...), freedom of the individual and anticonformism. These describe pearl quite well
There is no way that she grew up in this scene without learning about these concepts and at least adhering to them in some way. The reason why she got into punk was most likely to express herself, meaning she probably went through some personal retrospective at some point.
Four, Pearl is humble. And what I mean by that isn't that Pearl doesn't talk about her money. She does, obviously. But rather that Pearl's wealth doesn't seem to make her feel superior in any way to others. She will talk to you like any other person no matter your status.
It was obvious with how she treated Marina when they first met. It's also seen with the fact that she's friend's with the agents, even calling Eight a really good friend of hers. But it's also still present to this day with Damp Socks.
Damp Socks could've been formed in many different ways. But Pearl actually found everyone on social medias. These people were just random dudes she found cool and that she got into a big adventure Imagine if Lady gaga randomly came into your DMs and went "yo wanna make a band ?"
Five, Pearl's wealth is so stupidly big that it's often played as a joke. She has a bus line stopping specifically for her house. She was gifted a giant boat when she was like 10yo. She also designed camp triggerfish and made the theme song because why the fuck not
Same for her new outfit in damp socks. She spent like half a million dollar's worth on her new jacket. Why ? because she wanted it to be made out of the same material as actual astronaut jackets. That's like. STUPIDLY precise but you do you girl you paid those designers well
Six, Pearl works hard. She was born into wealth, but nowadays, the reason why she has money is because her band is successful. Pearl has always shown a desire to improve herself, to change and try new things, to work into building up a future for herself and Marina.
@FernShawArt I'm so curious about this where did this info come from I really wanna know LOL
@FernShawArt Pearls jacket being made out of the material an EVA suit uses is actually sick as hell