I wish that didn't make the current in-employment demography run scared from me, here in Britain. "Post-industrial" seems to have come with a reliance on a money-spring which bubbles out of the ground and spreads across the economy at constant invariant rate. Creating new value-system in which I am left looking like some "Don Quixote" figure.
An impression - fair or not? So many "entrepreneurs" driving around "the Queen's highway" in their German limosines are solely funded by from-the-State money, in a world which is competitive but only between each other.
I just had a good 7-day assignment as a welder on the running repairs of a ship berthed at a nearby port.
Rich S
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Attila the Hun was a hero among his vassals because he confiscated and redistributed the wealth they envied but weren't capable of creating themselves. That's still the goal of the Left. They claim to help the People but the people who benefit most are their politicians and greatly expanded bureaucrazy, their dependent vassals.
Because of Attila and his kind, a thousand years of dystopian Dark Age displaced a thousand years of rising civilization. London didn't have public water and sewer utilities like ancient Rome's until 1852.
Soon there was nothing left to steal and no incentive to create more. Anarchy enabled banditry which halted trade, each community had to become self-sufficient. The answer was feudalism, submitting to the local warlord's protection.
A similar collapse occurred in Russia after the Revolution, until Lenin reintroduced private enterprise with the New Economic Plan. Then he died suddenly, Stalin couldn't make it work, and ruled like Ivan the Terrible instead. China has learned from that failure.