Why do people have to be more important than others, and why does it have to be financially based?
If a working class person was killed, that'd be far more important to his family than the death of some rich person they didn't know, and vice versa, but humans shouldn't be categorized into important/unimportant.
I don't like this idea that some humans are worth more than others, when a person's finances may just have been caused by luck - for instance, winning the lottery for a rich person, or being divorced and having everything taken from him for a poor person. If I was asked to choose between a rich person or a poor person, I think I'd take the time to ask them rather more important questions - such as if they have a family, how old their family is (to ascertain the effect it would have on them), than "How much money do you earn a year and are you on benefits?".