teachers?"
This jibes with many of my experiences with people of higher status, particularly my days in retail and then in academia. Everyone should have to work retail at some point. It teaches you about what happens when people are given that status and how they use it. Frankly, I have a close member of the family who married into wealth after a middle class existence and the changes are startling in how she looks at and talks about people "below her" in society. That's why I'm always impressed by people of status who remain humble, sympathetic and generous.