Some Billionaires seek to push workers down to penury

Billionaires strive to undermine democracy to pass laws to transfer more wealth to them. But desire for even more wealth is not their only reason. Some also make a political calculation that if workers are in penury they will be unable to organize to resist. So they seek to push workers down to penury.

That ideology appeared by the late 1700s and it is still influential today among billionaire right-wingers.