We see a guy in a nice car, director of the bank, and we respect him! Even though he is a zero man, and he is stealing our money, he makes bad investments, but he gets his bonuses anyway!
But we don't have respect for people who collect garbage, and clean toilets... and without them, we would live in shit! Literally!
This system can't work without poverty, without wars (mostly imaginary)... it's how they keep us down! If you don't wish to do something that is not moral, ethical... they will tell you "if you don't do it, someone else will!", they tell you "if you talk too much we can remove you from the picture!"! Already been done so many times, and you know that system is capable of doing monstrous things, some people are ready for money to do anything...
Unfortunately as long as we have poor people defending rich people for a possibility that poor person could become rich one day, we will not fix anything.
In all nations there are people who are in poverty that vote for the rich people, and that is the main problem, nobody wants to vote for a "I am not rich, you are not rich, lets tax the rich and have no poverty!!" person, they want to vote for the "we are rich, you are rich, we are all awesome!!!" person because human nature is based on being hyped and pumped up, so when a politician say that you are doing okay, you vote for him, and when they say that you are doing horrible and they can fix it, people decline being horrible.
I guess that is changing slowly and gradually but I feel like there is at least few more decades before we are 100% convinced that helping the poor is more important than helping the CEO's of the world.