someone on OKC is arguing to me that 'you have to be a certain economic status to have the luxury of accepting that everything is meaningless', which is like, the most icky mashup of social justice and philosophy i never wanted to see
It's not necessarily indicative of economic status. It's more having reached a point of intersectional awareness. Anything can bring that out. Siddhartha went from being a prince to a hobo; that enabled him to become the Buddha. A range of experience permits a range of knowledge.