Elites moralize contentment to those they exploit.

Evidence

Essentialisms that take for granted received categories and relations of difference - and particularly the practices used in defining and naturalizing them run the risk of being appropriated by states, institutions, elites, and other parties that seek to sustain or extend relations of social inequality and domination. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 291 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Workers’ only meaningful choice under capitalism is to work or starve. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 552; Early education reformers aimed to defuse class conflict without redistributing wealth; Elites can sway people by reframing sacred values as secular tradeoffs. — Scott Atran and Jeremy Ginges, Sacred Values and Cultural Conflict, 20 (+7 more)

Related

• Elites deliberately mobilize prejudice to enforce majority social order and transform people’s worth. (similarity 0.83)
• Essentialist notions of group difference get appropriated by elites to sustain domination. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Aristocratic elites enforce virtue by inducing fear through ceremony and display #exemplifies (0.85)
• Elites deliberately mobilize prejudice to enforce majority social order and transform people’s worth. #corroborates (0.80) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 463
• Duty-based moralities subordinate the individual to maintenance of social norms. #expands (0.80) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 553
• Invented sacred territorial traditions serve elites while ruining the nation #exemplifies (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1568
• Essentialist notions of group difference get appropriated by elites to sustain domination. #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 291
• Elite circles reframe as fashionable vice what the masses punish as crime. #corroborates (0.80)
• Elites can sway people by reframing sacred values as secular tradeoffs. #expands (0.75) — Scott Atran and Jeremy Ginges, Sacred Values and Cultural Conflict, 20
• High-authoritarian elites gorged on personal wealth while their people starved #contradicts (0.75)