New statistics show that only one in 10 of those earning more than six figures considers themselves rich, and almost everyone feels poorer. Zoë Beaty explores what has changed in how we perceive wealth C hampagne towers, cocktails and caviar: a century ago, F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby immortalised the hedonism of the 1920s Jazz Age elite in their shiny, vacant world, where wealth was both dazzling and doomed. Gatsby was leading the way to the American dream – prosperity and success –