https://archive.is/2023.04.17-212925/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/millennial-generation-financial-issues-income-homeowners/673485/
Incomes and wealth are not just objective numbers—there is a large element of perception involved in whether someone thinks they are doing well.
You are not poor, you just think you are.
CHUDs really do have the luxury of picking and choosing what they want to believe. It's unreal that anyone takes them seriously, it's like because :grillman: never truly had to grow up, he still has the mind of an 8 year old boy.
It's crazy when you interact with middle and upper class chuds. Working class chuds I know from more personal experience is more a question of trauma and deprivation and being preyed on by reactionary propaganda. But with the bougies it really is, like you say, like interacting with giant, overgrown, petulantly vicious children. You can tell that they've been cocooned and never been forced to actually have their worldview called into question. They've never faced consequences for the wrongness of their actions, and have neither the incentive nor the spines to change them.