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Normally, money and social problems are directly connected, that's why they call them "socioeconomic issues". Being poor puts people at risk of falling into traps that in turn make them poorer, in a vicious cycle. Being affluent makes life more stable and makes it easier for people to help their children become successful, so privilege self-reinforcing too.

But under extreme circumstances it seems like the two can become detached?

Vancouver strikes me as a place poisoned by too much money. It was a working class port city and then overnight due to a real estate boom you had all these young people with unearned inherited riches. It attracts all these immigrant groups who arrived loaded with cash and their kids are spoiled rotten. They have lots of cash to blow on drugs, fast cars, and zero boundaries. The sky-high inequality makes the poor more desperate and angry.