Moral crises among elites do not destabilize workers already disciplined by necessity

Evidence

But the crisis does not affect the working masses except in a superficial manner, or it can affect them indirectly, in that it depraves their women folk. These masses have either acquired the habits and customs necessary for the new systems of living and working, or else they continue to be subject to coercive pressure through the elementary necessities of their existence. Opposition to prohibition was not wanted by the workers, and the corruption brought about by bootlegging and gangsterism was widespread amongst the upper classes. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1111

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to class-differentiated moral panics later taken up by the immodesty article and general moral-crisis literature. — connects to: Capital needs workers dejected enough to work but not despairing enough to rebel — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1829