Perhaps the 1% struggles to recognize the overwhelming example of humanity more or less defines humanity. Even if the 1% were truly better in every way, in some hypothetical fantasy, the 99% would simply exist according to nature, or according to their genetics and environment. There’s nothing inherently scummy or lazy about that. It’s purely subjective to describe them that way.

My experience is that most people work very hard and believe they don’t work hard enough.