When all else fails, blame the rich

The war of big ideas has devolved to pure power struggle, yet big ideas haven't disappeared, just assimilated and morphed into attitudes and prejudices. The recent political obfuscation regarding Fat Cat greed struck a populist chord from ever present strings waiting to be plucked -- the same old tune Marxists' played back in the day of vodka and dead roses.

This idea of the greedy rich is so ingrained with older workers it's an automatic response and the biggest obstacle to freedom, but it may be a fading idea that a decade or so from now will begin losing its power. The information/hi-tech age is developing a different kind of worker that's far different from the union Joe who became a Democrat to stick it to management. the new worker has highly specialized knowledge, and sometimes it's greater than management's knowledge, so that a power sharing is under way. There will still be the poor among us who hold the automatic resentment of wealth, but they will not have the traditional organization of the old worker.

As the military hierarchy of traditional companies gives way to flexible, de-centralized workplaces, there are fewer controlling managers to fight and less need for political power. Actually, the freedom of the modern workplace may translate into demands and expectations of economic and social freedom. Freer workers with more power won't have the same antagonistic relationship with management and will be less prone to envy and class warfare, therefore less dependent on government efforts of wealth redistribution.

The new worker will likely see government as clumsy, anti-tech, costly and restrictive. One can only hope.