I have argued elsewhere that many people today are frustrated because we are surrounded by organizational structures and artifacts. The workers are a diminishing, segment of society, contrary to Marx’s prediction that the proletariat would grow and grow. Increasingly we are doing things with engineers sitting at consoles, rather than with workers screwing nuts on wheels. As the workers become increasingly petty bourgeois and as middle-class bureaucratic and organizational structures increasingly govern all aspects of our society, our society is increasingly taking on the characteristics of the lower middle class, although the poverty culture is also growing. More and more now we are going to a planetary structure, in which the great dominant lower middle class, the class that determines our prevailing values and organizational structures in education, government, and most of society, are providing recruits for the other groups - sideways, up, and even down, although the movement downward is relatively small. Our society used to be a ladder on which people generally climbed upward.
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