[mrzimmerman]

I've read it as we repeat a cycle where people are always far up on top and the only way to break that cycle is to be content with more or less everyone being in or near the middle.

Or put another way: So long as there is a high that people can day dream about becoming then there will never be equality for the majority of people. Otherwise people will get into the high places, slam the door shut as soon as they can, and the fighting and day dreaming will continue.

[asjw]

How would you avoid it?

I agree with your sentiment and I am probably on the lower end of the middle class now, coming from a working class family, but I can't find a way to avoid that someone will get more than me by simply not caring about obeying the rules.

If you have more resources you can buy your exemptions from the law. Probably from someone who can be "bought" because that money is a significant amount compared to what usually earns.

I hoped in this third Industrial revolution to free us up from labor, but it looks like people don't get it well when you tell them "your job doesn't exist anymore" even if it's generally a good thing.

[fungicide]

"The Fourth Industrial Revolution" is one of the most successfully lobbied and marketed instruments of our time. It has preoccupied governments and distracted them from addressing existing inequalities.