this is a very dire prediction, but i do not believe any other scenario is likely.

  1. Lowtech
    Lowtech
    current generations are probably the best and only times we may have to re-structure society away from the rich/worker paradigm. use of money is so inefficient that even with it's unparalleled control over us there will be a time where money will be unable to ensure our obedience any longer. when oil has run out, fresh water scarce, over population, subsequent food shortages ravage the global economy, wages we tolerate today will become far too intolerable for the majority of the world, at which point there will be no other recourse for the rich except to control us via military occupation to enforce their "ownership" of all the world's resources. instead of the concept of income putting us "in our place" it will be violent work camps that perpetuate class structure as they are today.