The 1% aren't some clandestine group who trick people. Reality is just a highly complex set of different distributions of people interacting with each other, economic structure, government, and culture.
Treat and solve it as a systems issue. Attributing maligned motives to small discretized sets of people doesn't solve problems.
Gather all the best ideas, and run lots of small decentralized experiments. Evaluate and iterate. I don't trust anyone who claims to see the solution as clearly as day.
I do not literally mean that there is an organized shadowy cabal of people wearing monocles sitting in smoke filled rooms scheming about ways to oppress low wage workers.
However, thanks to court decisions like Citizens United, the sheer amount of money in lobbying, and revolving doors between government decision-making jobs and industry executive positions, wealthy business owners have never been in a better position to propagandize.
Look at Sinclair's ownership of television stations for instance.
Treat and solve it as a systems issue. Attributing maligned motives to small discretized sets of people doesn't solve problems.