Moral responsibility exists on both ends, but it's amplified by agency. Those in charge have more agency to make their own decisions, and those at the bottom ha

Moral responsibility exists on both ends, but it's amplified by agency. Those in charge have more agency to make their own decisions, and those at the bottom have less agency because they need to eat. That doesn't completely absolve them of responsibility for their own actions, even if their options are limited in scope. If your job is to make people's lives worse, at some point you need to take responsibility for choosing to do that job anyway. Very few of the people actually implementing models like this are without options when it comes to providing for themselves in ways that don't cause harm.