Dehumanizing poverty is one of the tools of control of workers, and it works best if it is capricious. With it the Master Class can give the order "Suffer for my greed -- for it is my virtue -- that you may be poor, but not THAT poor" because of threatening images of children with distended bellies. If the Far Left has typically allowed the Perfect to be the enemy of the Good through sheer recklessness of thought, the Traditional Right has knowingly allowed the Horrific to be the defense of the Dreadful, at least for the common man so that the economic elites can enjoy sybaritic excess. Economic exploitation has been one of the typical tools for maximizing profits and the elite share of the productive capacities of a country.
