collapse of the old society

And by design, if you're not willing or able to work that much, you'll have no safety net, so you'll either die or at least end up homeless, and once homelessness is fully criminalized (as is happening piecemeal around the country) that means you'll end up in prison, as a slave working that many hours anyway.

They're actively recreating the Middle Ages, just with a somewhat different propertied class.