Plus the wealthy elite lived on the highest terrace of the land, and any of the proles/future donors were shot trying to climb up
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I've read basically all the Niven I could find, and I don't remember this. He basically ignored poor people in what I've read. You remember what title that's in?
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They discuss it most thoroughly in his Gil the Arm stories.
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Those are some of my favorites, and I don't really remember anybody shooting at people trying to climb up. The organleggers aren't even really poor, since they're making bank on chopping people up.
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A Gift From Earth and he wasn't really concerned about the poors, it was the working-class colonists who were the revolutionaries except they later turned out to be bloodthirsty radicals and the protagonist ends up being the balance between the two sides
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