> would strengthening the economy even more help the situation and modernize perspective or serve to increase class divisions? Initially it would do the second

> would strengthening the economy even more help the situation and modernize perspective or serve to increase class divisions? Initially it would do the second. As we see from the modern PRC and our own Gilded Age (1870s-1910s), it takes a fairly active and honest government to force wealth out of the hands of the richest and into society as a whole. Until and unless that government comes into being, wealth creates cliques and oligarchs in a crony capitalist mode.