I work in the municipal office of a tiny city that’s an enclave for the super rich. We’re entirely surrounded by a major city, but we’re a different jurisdiction.

Of course, I don’t get to live there. Literally every resident is a millionaire or better. The average new house being built there is about 8 million dollars, and we have a lot of housing churn.

That is, people will buy a 5 million dollar house and tear it down to build a 12 million dollar house.

All that to say that I interact with these people all the time. They almost invariably don’t realize how out of touch they are, because their neighbors are also millionaires.

You’d think it’s a super nice city, but other than the houses it’s fairly run down. They don’t want good roads or sidewalks because then people would use them. The city was essentially founded to prevent bus lines from the major city from having stops near the fancy district.

Over half the municipal employees are cops, and their main job is keeping homeless people away.

All this work goes into isolating the rich from the poor, and it’s worked so well that most of the rich don’t even realize it’s happening.