> The author characterises today's class war not as the working class vs the rich, but as the rich against the professional and managerial class. That's an int

> The author characterises today's class war not as the working class vs the rich, but as the rich against the professional and managerial class. That's an interesting perspective, but not the only lens I would view this issue through. John Mackey (founder of whole foods) makes a point about the intellectual vs. the commercial class that seems relevant: > Intellectuals have always disdained commerce. That is something that tradesmen did—people that were in a lower class. Minorities oftentimes did it, like you had the Jews in the West. And when they became wealthy and successful and rose, then they were envied, they were persecuted and their wealth confiscated, and many times they were run out of country after country. Same thing happened with the Chinese in the East. They were great businesspeople as well. > So the intellectuals have always sided with the aristocrats to maintain a society where the businesspeople were kept down. You might say that capitalism was the first time that businesspeople caught a break. Because of Adam Smith and the philosophy that came along with that, the industrial revolution began this huge upward surge of prosperity.