I will concede the point, I didn't mean to say that What I mean is, it's a starting position, and in terms of the modern world it's more a prediction than an analysis. It doesn't describe the modern world, which I would say has not developed exactly as anticipated.


I appreciate we are coming at this from different angles, but to me, trickle-down is another discredited theory, another imaginary prop used as a moral support to justify selfishness and rapacity.