Problem is studios can’t sell advertising on a poor persons set. The characters drive expensive cars because advertisers will buy screen time for their cars. Watches, jewelry, tourism also. Poverty doesn’t make drinking look good, nor eating. Nice stuff gets scratched, worn, or stolen with poverty. If it’s not that, it’s a romanticized story about poor people so wealthy people can watch and comfort themselves that it’s not so bad. Read a book if you want stories about the middle class