In my experience poor people don’t care about rich people who aren’t on TV so long as they can generally do what they want without going to prison or losing their homes and rich people devote their entire lives to making sure poor people aren’t misbehaving or taking more than their share
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Means test the wealthy.
Means testing the wealthy should always return "yes, the wealthy have the means to be subject to increased taxation".
The wealthy are blessed with wealth because they are moral. The poor are punished with poverty because they are bad.
The wealthy aren't means tested to prove they create jobs because they're assumed benevolent.
Propaganda for the rich by the rich.
The mental resources needed to deal with our lives make us less effective workers, but it also prevents revolt. They deal with the lowered effectiveness through business process development.