I've said this before (I've said everything before), but one divide (not the only one) is between people who live paycheck to paycheck most of the time and people who don't. Some people who live paycheck might be living pretty well, at least until they lose their job or have a health care event, but the point is that they're always living a bit on the edge, just one bad event away from trouble.
Most highly paid people on the teevee long ago forgot what it was like to count down the days until the next paycheck, and increasingly most of them probably never knew, especially as they now seem to be hereditary titles.