It's almost like they're deliberately crushing the middle class because they want all the proles to be permanent renters, debtors and wagies. Unleashing the lumpenproles is how you dissolve communities, then you purge the uppity lumpenproles once they're served their purpose of shredding the social fabric. Then you can offer a seemingly "generous" deal to the proles whom you've reduced to slaves.
It's almost like they're deliberately crushing the middle class because they want all the proles to be permanent renters, debtors and wagies. Unleashing the lumpenproles is how you dissolve communities, then you purge the uppity lumpenproles once they're served their purpose of shredding the social fabric. Then you can offer a seemingly "generous" deal to the proles whom you've reduced to slaves.
Anarcho-tyranny.
Neo-feudalism.