It would be one thing if classes were more sharply delineated, and the leisurely rich could be swiped right off the top like an unwanted layer of beer foam, or for that matter, capital could be lifted right out of the heart of the body politic and replaced with a more stable engine.
But modern society's classes are much more complex and integrated. There is a vast amount of differentiation among blue and white collar laborers with hierarchies cutting across both categories, and within those hierarchies are identity hierarchies, and outside of those class hierarchies are identity hierarchies as well.
And the landholding and capital classes have manged to reach deep into the body politic and bind themselves with the lower classes, stitching their class in like a graft. Thanks to decades of sustained propaganda, you can have a middle class homeowner view rent control as a threat to their very existence, while failing to see such a mechanism as a flimsy yet necessary barrier to the scorched earth accumulation of a class that would see them and everyone else burn to earn a single more percent of return on their balance sheets.
As such, class interest is stitched and weaved throughout society, and the tugs of hostility meant for inherited wealth and capital reach all the way down into those whose exploitation and oppression serve as enrichment for the former. A failed class system then, leads to a society at war with itself.
Our politics of constant grievance and permanent crisis reflects this well enough. One of the central experiences of our time is a universal and recurring exploitation and crushed expectation, as the integrated sections of society press against each other.
