One advantage of being ‘Middle Class’ is that one often has friends who are rich and poor. As I see it, most of the rich aren’t any happier than I am. Some of them worked hard, some got lucky. And most poor people I know don’t work any less hard. Sure there are a few bums but most of them just got a bad draw of the cards and never learned the skill set to move up, or never developed the self confidence that my parents equipped me with.
The rich aren’t any happier, the poor aren’t any more noble, 80 percent of what *I* have seen is due to luck and being born to parents who inculcate a work ethic and/or provide a bit of resources for a running start.
My point is that representative government requires a middle class to work well; we don’t envy the rich or idealize the poor, we know we could probably be either if we were either lucky/unlucky or driven/lazy.
I believe in luck, I find that the harder I work the luckier I get.