The assault on meritocracy is at full tilt. Most of those who live in the high-value housing areas are there because through inheritance or some merit of their own, they have gained the measure of worldly goods to afford to live there.
Rank Has Its Privileges, or RHIP, has been a recognized demarcation between members of the human species since well before there even WERE creatures that could termed “human” in the modern sense.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” - George Orwell