Poverty of many is wanted by essentially all élites to have cheap labor and "expendable people" to use to go to war etc. One of the biggest growth in the west w

Poverty of many is wanted by essentially all élites to have cheap labor and "expendable people" to use to go to war etc. One of the biggest growth in the west was the colonial period thanks to gazillion of new cheap labor and resources. That's is. The issue is not only for poor but for anyone (élite included) when poverty became too or too little widespread. With a too spread poverty social unrest are granted and sooner or later a civil war happen. If there are "too few" poor than the economy have issues, even if evolve to be fair because we always have unpleasant works to do, not all can be automated today, and probably for many others years to come. USA problem to my European eyes is that USA are, like Europe, ruled by a small clepto-corporatocracy that led to an unbalanced quick&dirty evolution of the country, until there are resources such system work. When they became scarce but someone else have them, possibly someone unable to defend them, an external war makes just a new business, when no one else can be stolen than there is an unsolvable issue. People with a certain lifestyle might accept certain changes but not big&quick ones. The classical move in those cases is creating credible emergency to separate people, those who are useful and/or can afford a far more expensive life on one side, poor on the other, physically separate, possibly with a certain geographical distance. That's what I see happening, well corroborated by having read few bits about ONU New Urban Agenda, WEF Green New Deal & IMF Great Reset scenarios/agendas. Unfortunately, not only for poor, such scenarios normally seems to work on paper for some, but normally do not for almost all.