> Middle class people putting old money on a pedestal and denigrating new money is so laughable to me.

Both are equally laughable. We shouldn’t put others in pedestals because of their wealth, full stop.

I think it's more to do with what you imagine life could be, if money were no object.

Middle class people have correctly concluded that hustling is not a virtue, and that hustling more is a fool's errand.

I personally don't aspire to work any harder than I already do, and given the choice, would strongly prefer to inherit my fortune over "earning" it.

Ironically, WiFi was actually developed by an Australian public research institute. The patent earned over 400 million which went to the government.

> do nothing but own land

Sheesh, those guys got skinned and mounted as trophies over a century ago.

Look up Pareto foxes and lions.