How do we keep each other down?

In society there always seems to be competition and segregation of the social classes with various differences that we compare with one another that leaves a group of individuals being mistreated and looked down upon by people who are seen as the superior elite. For example,this is seemed most commonly in the uneducated and poverty stricken communities that have been the victims of abuse from major corporations that dump their product waste in their water and environment. The poor neighborhoods cannot possibly be able to fight lawsuits with the major companies as opposed to cities where the financial capable citizens reside in. Thus such residents are forced to coup with the harsh and destructive pollution and toxicity being a part of their daily lives. These obscurities also include their communities being poorly funded due to lack of assistance and neglect from the exploitations these helpless individuals that are forced to receive.  It is by this way that the richer individuals can continue to exploit such individuals who do not have the power to fight back. Thus these obstructions lead to the exploited individuals to lose hope and gradually come to accept the conditions around them and be forever trapped in the continuous   lifestyle they have inhabited since they were born. By doing so, it allows the people with more power over the less fortunate to accomplish what would benefit them by continuation to deprive their fellow citizens of their equal rights as a human being.  They then instill into the public eye that these bad neighborhoods are a direct result of the resident’s laziness and reluctant to want a more beneficiary life for themselves. By pushing all the blame and the fault onto the poverty stricken individuals they avoid having the public blame such major corporations and lawsuits so they can continue their harmful profit making ways. It is only when society becomes a active group that fights back against the destructive activities being done to their fellow citizens, can they assure there will be equal treatment of everyone's rights. It is such a hard concept and task to complete due to the obstacles in the way such as the government and the corrupt companies of the wealthy class who use their money to influence the government into their favor; that such a task is difficult to be successful.