Who the hell is this working man? Most references here seem to be to the blue collar factory worker, who is near obsolete in North America because of robotization and more efficient, modern assembly methods here and in developing countries.

Should developing countries be denied the right to become equal? That seems to be the unstated demand.

Neither party had developed a program for education of the young for the new world; that would require billions and therefore is hard to sell to the public and their elected representatives.

Of course it is inevitable that, as fewer and fewer people are required to produce food and goods, that solutions hinted at in science fiction become thinkable.