"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."
A feature of capitalism is when you have a group of workers able to live less precariously, they become protective of it because it ultimately is temporary. They’ll seek out means to make even their own income stable over time.
This creates that false division of upper middle class. It’s the moderator vanguard to capital and they dont even have to be told to do it