It was and is purposeful. Abuse victims statistically have much much lower self-esteem and life achievement than people who were not abused do, and therefore abuse victims make good chattel for menial labor. That’s where TPTB want most people, as chattel sweeping floors or minding registers or flipping burgers with chains around their necks. The fact that those chains are internal is all the better for them.

It’s just modern day slavery and bullying in schools and abuse by parents is used to break people like they were horses.

It’s sick.