Ake you are on the brink of knowing what Kari Mark knew. It is a two tiered society by design. We have a handful of families in the US with as much wealth as all the rest of the people in America. Yes we have built islands of poverty which concentrate the poor by the banks and feel the might of the police, justice system and even the National Guard to control the violence born of oppression. They are our ghettos.
We built them and bypassed them. Yes they are scary. In America they were built for racist reasons. A colony inside a nation.

The poor are still consumers and act like an engine to capitalize the rich. There are newer more profitable engines of wealth that have evolved which use capital itself to create virtual money. Flash trades, hedge, bundled securities etc. These methods create and make nothing except more virtual money for the rich. Still the fundamentals of lying cheating and stealing apply..

Yes a new ideology is needed but for now the rich con man and corporation capture the imagination of the poor which is anathema to their own self interest.

We can dream of a utopia but the need and greed pf a sociopathic wealthy class will spend half their fortune to keep the current system. Still the power of 7 billion people to 20,000 wealthy elite need to compromise. Can we do it without killing ourselves and the Earth?