An unsubstantiated but to me very plausible theory about America is that its society is designed in such a way that it creates a huge lower class for its upper

An unsubstantiated but to me very plausible theory about America is that its society is designed in such a way that it creates a huge lower class for its upper class to abuse ("hire for peanuts"). This abuse is a means for the rich to enrich themselves even further by selling products and services to middle class, luring them into thinking they, too, can become plutocrats, or at least achieve something close to a plutocrat's level of standards of living. If a poor person rejects one of those shit jobs they are labeled as "being lazy" and are shunned by society.