The rise of the proletariat.

Karl Marx wasn't entirely wrong. Here's an example of a standard deviation bell curve of a "normal" community. The far left of the curve represents the bums and social parasites. They do nearly no work but receive nearly no pay. As we move to the right, we encounter the part timers and equivalent. They do little work and receive little pay. Halfway on the rising part of the bell curve, we have the average workers, who do increasing amounts of work for proportionally less pay(though more in absolute terms). Most of the proletariat fall into this category. Even "high flying" salarymen can only go so far (to around the top of the bell curve) because they eventually get burned out from overwork. Those near to the top of the bell curve tend to be low-grade managers and overworked supervisors who are pressured by the top management to keep up with deadlines, and hit from below by disgruntled grunts. Not really an enviable position given the small pay difference. These are the leaders who actually have to do work. Now, after the turning point of the bell curve, workload decreases as pay increases. Why? This is because of increasing delegation of labour to the lower echelons. Actually, only upper management personnel have such work-pay ratios. Only at the extreme right of the curve do we encounter those who are the envy of the masses. Landlords, company founders (who actually aren't really too involved) and commercial criminals. These earn more money than most but simultaneously do less work.