What I think is being created is a twisted mix of indentured servants who have to shop at the company store. The bond between those just making it and those paying the starvation wages is difficult to break. How does a person working at Walmart break free? By moving over to Target? The 1% has made an economy that essentially imprisons people into lower paid jobs that creates a cycle of working and trying to stay alive that leaves little time for planning on how to get out of it. This is no accident. It is the design.