I'm with you. I think there might be a shift coming, but I have no idea what it looks like.
I do think we're on an unsustainable track vis-à-vis what "wealth" means in this country and what it can, and also what it refuses to, accomplish. The fundamental power behind wealth, and the myriad ways it can and is weaponized, doesn't quite gloss over as easy. It's a harder shine job because we actually see the truth, even though we don't like the look.
Maybe it's generational for me, but the old ideas that large swathes of the American population was comfortably in the middle class (with extreme wealth and poverty being simply that, the extremities of the spectrum attributable to "personal factors") has disappeared. Not because we've been brainwashed by evil socialists, but because a lot of us have lived lives where these old myths are wildly out of touch with reality.
We've lived lives with much smaller financial margins for error than our parents. Turns out, giant swathes of the American population are actually trapped in a financial hellscape of debt and low-wages, with no hope of escape. Fuck, my parents bragged about the fact that there would be no social security for me. What a wonderful message to your children: all of this socialist safety net stuff is bullshit, but don't worry, there definitely won't be any of it left over for you once we have our way. Only bootstraps for you, my boy.
Our modern society, with all of its hate and emphasis on the immediate, has ripped open all those lies that we were told as kids in the 80s and 90s that never quite seemed to fit in real life. We've come to find out that it wasn't about the kids, it was about the control. It wasn't about Jesus, it was about the power. It wasn't about deficits, it was about the giant piles of easy cash.
Someone in another thread nailed the idea: we v. Me. I think that's going to be played out across our entire society for the next generation, probably in ways we cannot predict. Financially, I think it will be different. I think it sorta has to be.