This is true as far as in the old days, the rich were able to live a different kind of life than the poor. One much more free of the fear of imminent death.
Nowadays, mostly being rich means you get a bigger chair on the airplane, a bunch of rooms in your house that you pay to heat but never go into, a car that requires more fuel, and if you got your money faster than sense, the idiotic practice of gold plating ordinary objects and gluing diamonds all over them.
This can change if the lack of wealth once again has the potential to threaten life. With the way we are cavalierly poking the health care beast, its not that difficult to imagine. If parents are ever told in a way that makes it clear to them that their sick children will be denied treatment that could save their lives because of a lack of money (that a richer person would think nothing of wasting on a weekend in Vegas), class warfare once again becomes a possibility.
Healthcare is an excellent example of how absolute leaps in wealth are much more significant than relative ones. Access to good healthcare is pretty binary, and doesn't put a very significant dent in inequality - but it lifts a huge concern from those too poor to buy for themselves.
Nowadays, mostly being rich means you get a bigger chair on the airplane, a bunch of rooms in your house that you pay to heat but never go into, a car that requires more fuel, and if you got your money faster than sense, the idiotic practice of gold plating ordinary objects and gluing diamonds all over them.
This can change if the lack of wealth once again has the potential to threaten life. With the way we are cavalierly poking the health care beast, its not that difficult to imagine. If parents are ever told in a way that makes it clear to them that their sick children will be denied treatment that could save their lives because of a lack of money (that a richer person would think nothing of wasting on a weekend in Vegas), class warfare once again becomes a possibility.