Those at the bottom, us, would be the slaves who produced everything, and I do mean everything, to maintain their life styles. Certainly makes sense if one considers karma or standing before God or examining one's Akashic records to determine evolution or salvation. Then there will be some kind of hell to pay, so it makes sense to the warped mind to use any means necessary to forestall that day of reckoning. Call this universal pull towards equilibrium anything you want, or deny it at your peril, but it is a Force for Good and this force is stronger than the force for bad. It truly is a matter of life and evolution and death, or socialistic stasis.
Humans are always in motion.
Just as the egg begins to turn when it accepts a sperm, so does the cellular development continue into the cycles we not only have going on within, the microcosm, but are also reflected in the world we see, the macrocosm. The turning of the earth which results in the days and seasons, coupled with the ebb and flow of the moon's gravitational force, turn into cycles and repetitive rhythms in our world. And just as the body reproduces every cell every nine months, this cycle, or definite, rhythmic motion is going on, within, right now. Every breath takes one closer to home. But some breaths have great periods of time between them and the evolutionary growth is, accordingly, slower.