This supports a point I’ve made many times: I don’t think most people deeply care that someone somewhere is richer than them. They care about having opportunity for economic advancement. Absent that, the fire and pitchforks come out
A defining American trait, and the neatest bit of elite inception in history.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ― Ronald Wright