> The majority of your argument revolves around the idea that only rich people in this “rotten system” will be affected, or that this is an important lesson.

I think the main issue is that the status quo is that more often than not such classes never learn any lessons, so people are cheering on any hurt they receive, no matter who else gets in the way. Discontent is such a state that people are becoming, as they say, Jokerfied.