I agree with 99% of this but with one caveat - the people at the top are simply unaffected by any of this, so don't need to do anything about it and they don't

I agree with 99% of this but with one caveat - the people at the top are simply unaffected by any of this, so don't need to do anything about it and they don't see or think about people that the decline does affect. My father recounts when he met someone who was very private and mindbogglingly rich - my dad asked the question "do you ever feel guilty when you meet poor people?" and his response was "I don't ever meet them" - because he didn't and so he never thought of it. I work in Fitzrovia and every day I walk past rich people in the cafes and restaurants just chatting the day away- the food is good, the company similar, the expensive car parked illegally close by (parking tickets are a minor inconvenience, rack up on their windscreens and those types of cars never get towed) and for some reason, the homeless and poor aren't visible (perhaps the police deal with that). Elysium does exist, but it's tiered - there's nice parts of London which are suitable at the moment, and if it starts to feel like that's a bit too gritty or real, they'll move to the South of France or Monte Carlo which really is Elysium on Earth. The need to do something about this exists within the middle and working classes and they don't have much of a chance to do so.