Making feel guilty and awkward around earning money is such a great tool of social control. I've kinda got to begrudgingly respect whatever asshole came up with it.
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I think the innocent explanations "people with different salaries have different cost/time tradeoffs" and "it sucks to always be the one on the receiving end of charity" are sufficient.
They're sufficient within the system as it exists, yes, but that is itself an artefact, and various features of that system significantly exacerbate those explanations: The range of salaries you can easily be friends with broadens significantly if people aren't struggling.
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At the bottom end the problem comes from precarity, at the top end it comes from the way people's cost of living is significantly encouraged to track their salaries.
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