Poor people don't make enough money for companies to target effectively. Poor people also do not have the skills to make them employable- as in the minimum req

Poor people don't make enough money for companies to target effectively. Poor people also do not have the skills to make them employable- as in the minimum requirements for a human life are not equal to what their economic output is. Automation also provides a significant downward thrust lowering wages and sending people to unemployment or unemployability. This causes the the non-higher classes to be slowly, inexorably be shoved further down, thus creating more in the lower classes. Therefore, the longer we go, the more poor people (per capita) will exist. And poor people will continue to be dismissed, other than hand-wavy good intentions that really fail to solve the issue at hand. Once this cycle goes long enough, then that is the beginning of a national collapse, ala Depression. (No money to do things, no way to get money.)