The problem is idle wealth, people with money who have no appreciation as to how wealth is earned.
These are the people that make groups like Black Lives Matter possible.
The didn't make Black Lives MatterTM possible, they create organizations like Black Lives MatterTM to increase their wealth and power. The subverted a Presidential election because their crime syndicates were losing money - money back to the taxpayers who paid it to begin with.
Bill Gates and other billionaires and multi-millionaires were raised middle-class Americans and they created/built their financial position from the ground up. "The love of money is the root of all evil." I would add, "The lust for power is a root of evil."
The elites are out-of-touch because they live in a bubble and environment that serves them and perpetuates their power. In a word, self-interest aka 'elites-interest' is why they don't relate or care about the non-elites. Our revolution along with the French revolution are examples of elites not understanding that ignoring the interests of the people - will lead to revolution.
The sad thing (human nature) is that in time, elites in a society/nation that were removed or reformed, are eventually replaced by a group of other/different elites. In 1776, the elites were those serving and benefiting from King George. Our Bill of Rights was a rebuke of the British colonial system. Our nation has a new class of elites, which are the enemy of individual freedoms/rights. We are overdue for a revolution!