The ‘Rich’ own the World?

Picturize this - a well dressed, ‘educated’, well-off individual, sitting in the pantry, enjoying his tea and his conversation on the phone.
A group of bell boys sit in the same pantry, sipping their tea before an arduous night shift, talking amongst themselves.
The well dressed man demands silence from them, and gets it, laced with an apology.
Would he have done the same thing if a group of people he knew, from the well-off section of the society, created a pandemonium?
Or is it just that being economically stronger gives someone the right to bully the economically weaker one, because the former thinks (s)he owns the world?