They're not "moneyed," though.

To be blunt, tell that to the guy whose manufacturing job just got off-shored or was replaced by a robot.

Your original quote from Brooks opened my eyes quite a bit. (Far better than all of the rambling nonsense from Jedi, even though I suspect that's roughly what Jedi was saying.) But I still don't think its as much about class or status as it is about money.

Perhaps I'm not using "moneyed" in the traditional sense, but trying to use it from the perspective of the guy whose smarts and skills are not with a keyboard but with his hands. I suspect he doesn't have too much of a problem with someone with a college degree making a bit more than him, but when the college educated start leaving him in the dust, he gets annoyed. Not at the education (which I would still argue that most without a college degree see some benefit in - these folks aren't stupid or uneducated, they simply don't have a college degree), but at the lack of understanding of what all these "smart" folks are doing to them.

You and I might think that the problem is really rich capitalists running their business to benefit themselves at the expense of others. But that's just us having EXACTLY the same point of view about those above us on the economic scale as those just below us have about us.

--Peter