Influence you earned slowly is hard to take away. Influence you bought disappears when the money does.

Anything you purchase attention with has a lease attached. Buy popularity with favours, money, or access and it lasts precisely as long as the supply does, because the relationship was with the supply. Standing built out of how you behaved over time is attached to you, so it survives losing things. Both look identical from outside while the money is still there.

Look at your own connections and ask which would still be there if you had nothing to offer. Invest this week in the slow kind: be useful to someone who cannot return it, and do not mention it.