The machine has put a cost on even the most basic needs vital to human life. This has led to unprecedented casualties and poverty. It's put a cost on the food we eat, the education we receive, even the very water that we drink.

Those who contribute the most to the machine based on the parameters it set are those who are the most well to do. 

Those who don't are simply enslaved for use as oil to keep its systems running. 

Those who can't contribute anything are either in jail, homeless or withheld from everything needed to be otherwise. To kill the mind and body, because the machine considers that one waste. That one is given little to nothing to survive, let alone flourish.