>> the prospect of survival contingent not on your wealth as in a traditional war, but on your interpersonal and improvisational survival skill was certainly looked upon with scorn.

Why wouldn't wealth come into play?

The wealthy have more resources to prepare for any kind of contingency to include nuclear war:

https://www.cnet.com/features/inside-the-survival-condo-nucl...

Granted, the reaction time needed to get into a protective bunker is greatly reduced in a thermonuclear first strike, but the poor don't even have a survival bunker to escape to.