Comment by chownie

I think the problem is actually 100% the reverse of what you've come up with, the ultra-rich are stealing from the poor essentially all the time. It never stops, there's never really that much pushback and it leads to in the millions of deaths a year. Look up the DOGE cuts for a really obvious, simple, not really arguable example of this.

This is why societies across the world but particularly hyper-capitalist societies are all suffering a similar set of ills.