Essential Q&A

Problem: One class is oppressing and exploting the poorer classes, keeping the power to themselves due to corruption and greed.

Question: Why is this system of oppression and exploitation successful?

Answer: The elites create a facade about themselves that deceives the workers and makes them become illusioned with their oppressors' supposed generosity, kindness, and concern. The exploiters use the process of dividing and conquering, singling out one worker at a time, to create adhesion amongst the expendable class. Furthermore, they humiliate and degrade the poorer classes by taking advantage of their vulnerability and take away their self worth by saying their labor has little worth. Jesus calls for the workers to disillusion themselves in order to create a cohesion and unity amongst their class, preventing any further oppression, exploitation, and intimidation from the elite.