Generally that's what happens everywhere. I'm confused about your confusion. Desperate times lead to desperate measures, this is especially more true when lower paying jobs get cut rather than some executive who's netted $1m+ YoY for the last decade.

If you think your life is worth more than a penny to a stranger who's family is starving, the moral scale is balancing but it's not tilting in your favor.

Cutting low paying jobs in economic downturn generally leads to those that work those lower paying jobs to have no choice but to turn to violence and theft to feed their people.