Another factor is that when the economy is seen as a zero or negative sum game for most people, the societal environment becomes more competitive and cutthroat, since people feel that they have to push someone else down to avoid downward mobility themselves, rather than look for win-win solutions. Such an environment makes it easier for influencers to brew up resentment and hostility against the outgroup of the day, since those not in the outgroup of the day may feel that keeping the outgroup out of economic competition helps themselves.