That was the precondition for the two worldwars in germany. Lots of "farmhands" with food and shelter, nothing to be proud of, no future, no family, so they got there whole pride from nationalism and race, and the farm owners talked themselves into believing they were basically nobility.

Then the whole situation spiraled out of hand, because everything was better then socialism. Turns out in the end, it was not.

Blockades used against "rival" empires made drastic measures rationalizable, like for example mass murdering populations to provide for your own population, that could not be fed without oil imports aka fertilizers. This whole madness we today remember, started out rational.

I thought we already went down this road and remembered were it leads.