This is how many major religions have compelled people to conspire in their own subjugation. You win by knowing your place and staying in it, in the expectation of rewards after death. Everything was God-created, went the logic, so people were precisely where God wanted them to be. As the Christian hymn sings it: ‘The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them high or lowly, and ordered their estate.’
