How the upper middle class keeps everyone else out - PBS News Hour

[sandensea]

1. Most anywhere you go in the world, the biggest obstacle to reform aren't the elites -

as much as it's the upper-middle class (with many exceptions).

They know full well that someone with a few hundred thousand to their names is much more akin to the poor and working class than to the elites - but they prefer to ape the über-wealthy (who generally despise them) because they're aspirational figures.

Human nature, I suppose.