[konschubert]

Let me offer a third point of view:

All social classes benefit when social differences are minimised, like in 70s Sweden.

For the high SES people, this means that they can move freely without worrying about their safety.

Walking home late from a party, biking to work or working from a coffee shop on a busy plaza are pleasures in life that rich people like, too!

The opposite is something like Mexico, where, as a rich person, you are basically forced to stay inside a bunch of confined areas and only move in public inside an armoured car. (Slightly exaggerating, but you get the point)

All social classes have an interest to provide the universal high quality education system that is necessary to achieve this. Some rich people might think that they are better off if the rest of the country is poor. But they are mistaken.

[rangestransform]

relative socioeconomic equality is not a necessary condition of safety, see: singapore

[konschubert]

But Singapore isn’t a free democracy.