I sometimes wonder if the egregious displays of class violence exhibited by today's rich are motivated by that.
"How else are they supposed to know who is the pleb and who is the patrician?"
Sure.
I found Clinton's tweeting her staffer's medical gofundme after being ambivalent-to-negative on socialized healthcare to be quite an egregious example.
Then there is anything done by Amazon recently. Bezos doesn't need cash.
Not having to care is its own status symbol.