Oh do NOT even go there. If you live in America, the only one keeping you poor is yourself! This is the land of opportunity where anyone can do anything and the possibilities are endless. And i see Dogsplat, you live in England, so nearly the same holds true for you.
Not true! The only one keeping you poor is the government, and the past!
Capitalist government + Anti-communist/socialist Past = Bourgeois + Proletariat
Solution: Revolution. Or make the government spend so much money (like in war) that it collapses and a natural anarchist communist autonomy develops

That’s a cool idea. “The War on Terrorism is a grand scheme of Communists to destroy the U.S. in order to create a New World Order.”
Adding this to Alternate Science!