Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 years back even he was a poor man.
Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.
Sometimes people think the old days were better than today. Even though life was simpler and slower, it was not necessarily easier.
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.