So instead of optimizing for efficient allocation of labor and capital, we should instead optimize for the short-term benefit of the landed gentry class? Seems

So instead of optimizing for efficient allocation of labor and capital, we should instead optimize for the short-term benefit of the landed gentry class? Seems like a likely path to either economic ruin or political revolution. Probably both. Since you don't seem like you're be sympathetic to an ethical argument, here's some real-politik: "fuck the poors" works well enough when the poor are actually poor. Less well when the people being systematically fucked over have significant social esteem, education, and economic means. See: the American Revolution.