I was tought history of communists so plebeian were always depicted as oppressed. Well.
“So, repeat after me: the patrician/plebeian distinction is not particularly meaningful in the Middle Republic. There are rich plebeian families in the Middle Republic who are influential in politics. Do not anachronistically forward-project the political struggles of the fifth-through-early-third centuries onto the struggles of the late-second or first centuries. Plebeian is not a synonym for ‘poor.’”
https://acoup.blog/2023/07/21/collections-how-to-roman-republic-101-part-i-spqr/