The 1% cry about it way less than the 40+% of absolute troglodytes in this country who think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires and love their tacky prophet Donnie the douche
This is a problem of gutted education, not the individual. The ring class removed all class awareness from our education and replaced it with glorifying an oligarchy disguised as a meritocracy.
I think it's more a problem of intelligence, which can be mitigated by education but you'll always have a certain amount of people who can be told any given lie and they'll not care whether it's true or not, even if they know better.