The question to ask should be "What would make you feel VIP has similar value?"
Capitalism has created Elitism based on money. Those who have money feel entitled to be someone special because they have money.
Some of these money-based Elitists go even so far as blackmailing software developers into "either you do what i want or you won't get my money !".
Capitalism has created a society in which EVERYTHING, yes EVERYTHING us purchaseable, and there is no kind of morale or humanism involved anymore, even Philosophy is rendered [spelling ?] as irrelevant because money rulez.
This Elitism is going to break society at one point, because there will be a fight at one point between those who have, and feel entitled to push their will through EVERYTHING with the help of this money, and those who have not. The end resuklt will be some kind of masked slavery for those who don't have because the capitalistic system will require MONEY to be the currency for making a living - and withholding it from some people or even only giving some people less and some people more will result in those who don't have money being the ones "at the wrong end", because MONEY is the tool to push through the own will against those who have no will because they have no money. No money, no lobbyism.
I have learned to know Elitism in my own case : A box of collected music of a certain band was available at one point in the past when I was much younger and was not able to purchae it. Now, those who've had the money own this box, and they say "this is in the box, you don't need to buy this additional CD or book about it". They see the world through the eyes of someone who has, and is through the
Curse Of Knowledge not able to see through the eyes of those who don't have.