This article at Buzzflash clearly demonstrates the short economic consequence of our current global economic trajectory I predicted - ever increasing concentration of wealth in the upper income tier by their constant extraction from the producing tiers. When workers are starved to the point they are not productive, the system will degrade into a very low productivity economy. I called it economic desertification. It's preventable. But the best solution is not to replace one set of elites (or apex predator) with another. It's much better to evolve a system with many small enterprises with complex interrelationships in an information transparent society, a modified anarchy because it 'evolves' with the community and is not pre-structure like a charter based society.