On the one hand people are at the minimum of what they need to just eek out existence. They have cut back,cut out so much already that they don't know where to cut next. Eating fine cuts of meat,cheese no hardly any cuts at all. Their kids are lucky to see a budget box of cookies in a good month(or year). Clothes becomes fashionable if it doesn't show skin. Heating and cooling is not always what they want. They get the heat in the summer and the cooling in the winter. Exercise is now in the form of walking because they can't afford to fix their car and they live far away from public transportation.
On the other hand they are angry. They resent the "high life" those at the near bottom are enjoying. They just know if those lazy louts(grannies too) would get off their aged butts there would be more $$$ for the top. They have made so many sacrifices from underpaying their cook or other staff just to keep ahead. Their fancy dinner parties have to be shaved to a couple times a month. Horrors! Kids birthday parties only allow one hundred kids instead of two. The chocolate lava cake is now shut down after one hour. The costs at the gym have become so bad that they are often forced to buy the same equipment,build a special gym in the back forty and pump iron there. The grand lady of the house must spend more time inside their indoors swimming pool(again resenting what they have to pay the pool boy!
Yes they both are forced to make sacrifices but what is vital to one group is hardly earth shattering to the other and yet they think it is. They think they have made all their life long sacrifices just for the rest of us. 
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