Eternal lower class

[AlwaysIguess]

Been playing for about 16 hours and have reached Lv6 on my city and pop. of 100 but most of my citizens have not grabbed any of the necessities like the candles, vases, or bags.
And making most of the higher tier places useless. Any tips would be appreciated.

[DamianH]

possibly because necessities requires permission for "the poor" to use, might have to change permission at the code stone so "the poor" allowed to take them

[Flavalicious]

Lower class rats need like 300g a day to buy enough stuff to meet the requirements to become middle class and it takes 2-4 days at that income for it to happen. When i minted like 30k of gold, i made a wellfare payment of 250g to any rat under 200g and im now up to 18 middle class rats out of a colony of 50.

Once your wealthy enough its better to tax income instead of wealth, lets rats keep their money and rank up.

[nasiru]

Less taxes and higher daily allowance so they can maybe break into middle class maybe? I think I have one or two middle class from immigration, but everything middle class I built I've allowed it for the lower class too. My rat town is similar too, eternal bronze class most of them due to chaotic whatever taxes I've enabled.

[Flavalicious]

https://imgur.com/a/Lel63xN

Im up to 24 middle class out of 52. Gotta pay them more, let em keep more taxes and have the items they need to buy to fill their needs (the 2 rats below 220 just bought stuff that day, so they are poor until the next day when they get their wellfare payout.