It’s amazingly effective. They also hide a lot in complexity in wage laws. By the time you step through explaining everything, most people who might be interested have lost interest so the easier to deliver narrative wins.

The divide your enemy strategy works very well, to this day. It takes a fair bit of effort and time to dig around to figure out the reality of what’s really going on.

In general, I’d say this is one large factor as to why we’re losing the class war across all sorts of issues.