This makes sense. IMO, the reason why Dunning-Kruger effect is so popular among the upper classes (along with Impostor Syndrome) is that it helps to provide justification for social inequalities as it corrects inner monologues.
"How come I have so much given that I'm not as skilled as these other people? I must suffer from impostor syndrome."
"Look at all these people complaining instead of taking responsibility for their own failures, they probably suffer from Dunning-Kruger effect. Their work must not be good enough."
But of course this requires a certain detachment from reality (hence why many upper class people have blind spots). If they actually took a look at the evidence, they may find that some of these 'Dunning-Kruger people' are actually far more skilled than they imagine. I think it explains why people like Jürgen Schmidhuber who made significant contributions to AI tend to be ignored. Then because people are ignoring them, they are compelled to promote themselves harder to try to get their fair share of attention but they are then put in the 'Dunning-Kruger basket' until someone with a very good reputation like Elon Musk comes along and gives them credit. I think the same could be said about the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan; many mathematicians ignored his work or assumed he was a fraud because he seemed too sure of himself for someone who was completely unknown at the time. If such gross injustice can happen in a perfectly-quantifiable field like math, you can be sure it can happen in any field.
"How come I have so much given that I'm not as skilled as these other people? I must suffer from impostor syndrome."
"Look at all these people complaining instead of taking responsibility for their own failures, they probably suffer from Dunning-Kruger effect. Their work must not be good enough."
But of course this requires a certain detachment from reality (hence why many upper class people have blind spots). If they actually took a look at the evidence, they may find that some of these 'Dunning-Kruger people' are actually far more skilled than they imagine. I think it explains why people like Jürgen Schmidhuber who made significant contributions to AI tend to be ignored. Then because people are ignoring them, they are compelled to promote themselves harder to try to get their fair share of attention but they are then put in the 'Dunning-Kruger basket' until someone with a very good reputation like Elon Musk comes along and gives them credit. I think the same could be said about the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan; many mathematicians ignored his work or assumed he was a fraud because he seemed too sure of himself for someone who was completely unknown at the time. If such gross injustice can happen in a perfectly-quantifiable field like math, you can be sure it can happen in any field.