"If you're making $300k a year, you have more in common with someone making minimum wage than you do with Elon [Musk, the founder of Tesla and other corporations]. There are people that walk among us that have so much wealth, that even generations of mismanagement can't squander it. These folks you speak of are not those folks."
If you're making $300k a year you are less than 2% of the population. It's not worth alienating the other 98% to placate your PMC guilt.
If the $300k suburbanite was about it, they wouldn't be bothered by jokes at their expense for living a life with little to no worries.