Speaking of those who toady to the rich....the boss who helped shove me out the door during a "voluntary" enhanced severance period was later pushed out himself, by the very upper management that used him to push many older employees out the door....
And my neighbor tells me his SIL got pushed out, found a better job, then a few years later the boss who pushed him out came looking for a job and had to be interviewed by someone he had fired.....
Seems that sucking up to bosses only gets you so far. As soon as they don't need you anymore, they find a way to get rid of you.
But the rich needs the middle class more than they think. Eventually we all end up in a nursing home, or hospice, or at least assisted living, and we will need the services of health care professionals, nurses, care givers, etc. I certainly hope my caregivers aren't ones who had to struggle past a bunch of obstacles placed in their paths by selfish rich people.
My own parents placed obstacles in my path, but I managed a bit of success anyway. Funny when they call wanting to borrow money from the one they used as their whipping boy....really funny....