All depends on how you define "wealthy". To me the middle class is the working class --- the ones who require a paycheck. The wealthy can live off their investment income or trustfunds. You might define "wealthy" as someone with just a good income but who still requires a paycheck, to me those would be upper middle class, they aren't wealthy enough to quit working.
Donald Trump works and has made his children work during their vacations.
Bill Gates works.
All of the Forbeses work.
The extended family Rockefeller? Yep, they all have jobs, but some of the married women don't. OTOH,many of them do charity work, raise their own children,and aren't all that different from anyone else.
All of President Bush's brothers work,as did their father before them and their grandfather.......All trustfunders.
Personally, I don't know a single trustfunder from my generation or my daughter's, who did/does NOT work, except for some of the married women.
The wealthy don't live off their investments. What century do YOU live in anyway? Stop reading books written by Edith Wharton,F.Scot Fitzgerald, or whatever " bodice rippers " you may indulge in. Who are you referring to anyway...Paris Hilton? Gee, she has a whole lot of salaried jobs.
There are no more "INTERNATIONAL PLAYBOYS"...Ali Khan and Ruberosa are dead as door nails.Taki (and even Taki works)is one of the last of the breed.
And I've got news for you, pet, I know many upper middle class men, who retired early and live off their investments. But THAT really isn't the point you're trying to make. No.........you're only a wee bit MARXIST and bitten by the green eyed monster of jealousy. It only richest of the rich, who drive you nuts. Okay, I understand it all now. But it REALLY would help your case, if you had even a glimmer of an idea what you're talking about; which you don't. :-)