Misconceptions

I see posts on social media encouraging people to do simple things no one over the age of three should have to be reminded of. Pick up your trash, be nice, etc.

Manners, etiquette, civility, have become less common in today's world.

We have a reverse snobbery that implies there is no reason for any sort of refinement short of not shitting in the street.

I believe it started when people began worshipping money, not for what it can do, but for what they believe it brings with it.

Rich people don't have to open their own doors, pick up their own trash, be nice if they don't want to. But most wealthy people in the past with any sense of security and savoir faire, were perfectly fine doing these things.

Being crass, rude, entitled, does not make you rich. It does not even make you look rich. It simply makes you look crass, rude and entitled. No matter how much money you do, or don't, have.

Like all social fads it is based on a false construct that grows up around frustration. The world is not fair and bullies like to throw their weight around. 

Weight is what you throw when you have nothing else.