[hardwaresofton]

Thanks! Lyn Alden's a great source of information -- I'm familiar with her work.

That said, I don't see how any of what you've said points to a problem in my theory -- the power of labor vs capital has been heavily tilted in the favor of capital for a long time now, unions got essentially systematically busted a while ago. I assumed that would be obvious as context.

I assume that you're not suggesting the lower classes are immune to the coming variant of inflation?