Is a new global class conflict inevitable?
Unlike Karl Marx[4] before him in his theory of class struggle that shapes history, Peter Drucker does not necessarily believe that the new emergent social classes of “knowledge workers” and “service workers” are naturally in conflict, within and across nation states. In particular, it is worth noting that “service workers” would be “knowledge workers” themselves, given the right life circumstances and choices that would give them access to equipping themselves with the essential factor of production for them to earn their own place in society. How global society in the collective navigates this transition to a knowledge society will determine the scale of the threats and opportunities that lie in the future. We are already starting to see widespread de-leveraging in the corporate community as grown projections slow and sources of cheap credit dry up, and with many governments in the developed world already in record amounts of sovereign debt – it is becoming evident that chasing growt
