Premise for a game:
>You're a miner in a space mining colony run by a greedy administrator and he's charging you 100 space credits for every time you go down into the mines and then taking a 30% cut of what you mined before he lets the space IRS take a cut of what's left. 97% of miners are on the brink of starvation while the other 3% and the planetside aspiring miners are trying to gaslight you how it's a great deal for you actually and that if you want to not starve you simply need to mine good ores smelters want to smelt.
Works for any genre, really.