The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

