Hmm, who better to bare the brunt of "backing down?" The wealthier group, or the group that if they did would starve and suffer in more squalor conditions than

Hmm, who better to bare the brunt of "backing down?" The wealthier group, or the group that if they did would starve and suffer in more squalor conditions than they already are? And for an unknown period of time, could be decades?