I entirely see your point DMcG.

One could say he was lucky to have enjoyed robust health all his life; to have married a woman who supported him in his ambitions and encouraged him, who knew how to economise and oversee a well-run household; to have been born with brains; to have lived in the new technological age, where opportunities abounded just after the War; to have been white; (I'm not being racist, but Britain was in those days!)
and so on.

But I do think his struggles and determination merit some recognition. He wasn't born to wealthy parents, and could have spent every evening down the pub (he never did that) He wore the same old overcoat for years so that we girls could have the school uniform, and tired though he was after work, he continued to study. It must have been hard, and His good character saw him through.

Rich people also may have struggled to rise in the business world. They may have started from humble beginnings, have had excellent business acumen and management skills and used them to good effect.

I'm not considering how they became rich, but what they're doing with their wealth once acquired.
They often seem blinkered to the rest of the world, and like Trump feel little compassion for the 'Strugglers'.

There ARE philanthropists of course, but anyone who is interested in spending £20,000 on some headphones rather than, say, endow a malaria clinic in W Africa is in my view delusional.