Big business needs both a healthy consumer class and a poverty/continuously violated class to act as a "this is what happens if you are a bad consumer/employee"

Big business needs both a healthy consumer class and a poverty/continuously violated class to act as a "this is what happens if you are a bad consumer/employee" example to scare people into various kinds of compliance, and maximize profit/minimize wages. It's comforting if you believe you can keep yourself and your friends out of that second category. I keep making new friends in low places so that's not the case for me.