I kinda agree with your take but there's a huge cultural distinction between "petite bourgeois and above" and "everybody else" that I think needs to be explored

I kinda agree with your take but there's a huge cultural distinction between "petite bourgeois and above" and "everybody else" that I think needs to be explored. There's a ton of punching down and self serving pity moving across that line in a way that is reminiscent of the racism of prior generations. People seem to need to feel better than somebody. I see a heck of a lot of people advocating for policy that professes to be extending a hand to pull up the lower classes but really it's just "you will not be allowed to advance unless you act like me" in disguise.