Abstracted Oppression

What happens when you have many layers of abstraction in society that are adversarially pitted against each other?

When we think of oppression, we typically think of when one person or one party keeps someone else in a particular place through force. The word oppression is usually in explicit forms. It's when one person forces someone else to be somewhere, saying, 'I'm going to keep you here, otherwise you get shot by a gun or violence.' It's a very direct feedback …