At this point I'm convinced that wealth disparity is just a knob they twist by printing money and doing stock market manipulation, and they found the right spot where we keep working and are terrified to strike, and also complacent enough to keep just watching TV and trying to ignore the ridiculousness.
State controlled social media generates the signal they interpret to know how much to twist the inflation knob, AI and misinformation is another knob they twist to allow greater wealth disparity by convincing people their hunger pains are caused by something else, and it's like a weird management game to them where they want to keep us working as hard as possible, to the point we won't even take a day off during a fucking pandemic.
it isn't a complete sandwich without the tomato, queso, and increment