>>596478No, it does. Poverty functions as a grinding mill over which workers are dangled.
Only a certain percentage of the population ever achieves the median wage and it is through the system of ingratiation that they must work to achieve this. Downward social mobility is essentially a real threat of a descent into hell.
Service sector employment is the bottom rung of this, next only to companies operating through illegal employment. Wage raises are kept to a minimum as a deliberate means to control staff. Access to this employment requires only citizenship, which is nothing more than a certificate to the general body of labour which is available.
The logic that results is one which emphaises individual success, when conversely one's achievements are entirely dependent on the social distribution of wealth.
The entire cycle of employment is viewed as a ladder from which one must escape.
Those who make it anywhere near the average income bracket jetison whatever political views they held because there was in no real case any substance to them, because the social invective is one which promotes ascension through the availability of luxuries.
The logic of consumption essentially prevails, at all levels. Because that is literally all capitalism produces: consumers.