The wealthy and the rich will always find a way to get the best of what they are presented with. What ever ordinary people vote for.
In the early 19th century most wealthy landowners wanted England to remain a green, rural and pleasant land, but when industrialisation came along and could not be stopped, in general they didn't turn their noses up to the rents presented by say the expanding mines, or the large dividends of the iron and steel companies etc. The money they used to entertain themselves in London and Paris and buy nice art, see John Bowes of Bowes Musuem or Hugh Bell's £180,000 (in todays money) arts and craft fireplace for his house near Northallerton.
Those that ran the British Empire a 100 years ago, are probably Merchant Bankers in the City or Barristers and QCs in the Inns of Court now. The less academic running the UK Armed Forces.
Not many outside their own communities care for people living on council estates in (for the wider UK/EU) unknown and forgoten places like Grangetown and Redcar, its not right, but from what I see that is how it is. Futhermore it feels like the gaps in wealth and understanding are getting bigger. Wealth and Income I know this to be true from finanacial data for the last 42 years.