The capitalist brainwashing is insidious. It reduces human’s worth to a number in their wealth portfolio. It separates “losers” and “winners” per social Darwinism. The “losers” are losers because of character defects, laziness, weakness and every other dehumanizing descriptor you can think of. Thus the lower classes buy this narrative and stay depressed and oppressed, blaming themselves for their lot; while the elites continuously pull up the ladder behind them.