It is actually the rise of a superclass of obscene wealth that triggers the journey to dystopia. They need distractions, so they’ll pick off minorities to demonise and distract the grunts from their core grievances.
It is no acccident that the obscene polarisation in terms of wealth is always followed by a violent, stochastic terror persecution of minorities.
It serves the interests of the super-rich to pitch ordinary people against each other and they always do it very, very well.
The horrors of tyranny as showcased by the early-mid 20th Century is a case in point.
The Hyper Greedy become scared, almost paranoid, and that is when they created programs of genocide and persecution.
We so definitely have to reign these greedy, blood-sucking cockroaches in, before they trigger or precipitate, another global catastrophe.