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I don't think you can really claim that middle class people work harder.  Sure they might have a more physically demanding job, but look at this from the point of view of a typical upper middle class person.

Went to high school, got good grades, got into a good college, worked hard, got good grades (not that easy to do at really good schools), got into grad school or medschool or just entered the work force.  Take a CEO for example , he makes pretty major decisions all the time, that his education has prepared him for, and that the person working on the factory floor would most likely never be able to fully understand or make that decision. 

You can argue that the lower class have harder jobs, however to get the jobs that the upper middle and upper class people have it is no cake walk either and takes alot of hard work and dedication, and the payoff is worth it in the end, alot of people would rather not make the sacrifice to get to this payout and therefore I do not really have all that much sympathy for someone who screwed around in school and has a deadend job and is going nowhere, it is really their own fault.