The problem is more likely the fact that their stories rarely fit your narrative, and so no one wants to hear them.
I'm not sure why you believe that a story of people living in a mansion, driving fancy cars and having money problems is unrealistic. I know a number of (upper) middle class folks with exactly that problem - solid income, spendthrift wife, and constant money problems. Consider this iconic story, originally pushed by the NYT as a story of poor middle class victims of evil banks: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/05/the-road...
http://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/cps/a-profile-of-the-working...
The problem is more likely the fact that their stories rarely fit your narrative, and so no one wants to hear them.
I'm not sure why you believe that a story of people living in a mansion, driving fancy cars and having money problems is unrealistic. I know a number of (upper) middle class folks with exactly that problem - solid income, spendthrift wife, and constant money problems. Consider this iconic story, originally pushed by the NYT as a story of poor middle class victims of evil banks: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/05/the-road...