There's a missing element in this story: the failure of the 90% to get organized in self-defense. Traditionally, a small portion of the children of the 9.9%, seeing the overall situation, abandons its own path of privilege, to experiment with alternative social-economic structures. Let's call them, the Visionary 1%, or 'V1'. For the 90% to become organized, significant leadership must come from the V1. However, the V1 has been mostly interested in creating alternatives for itself, not for the 90%. From their utopian bubble, the world appears to be changing for the better--a 'new age' is dawning--so they've had the luxury of merely modeling a better society, on a small scale; rather than organizing it, on a large scale. In other words, they haven't developed large, genuine, co-operative corporations--the practical path for 90% self-help. However, the new generations of the V1, are beginning to grasp that time is running out; and that broad civilizational collapse, will scuttle their utopian demonstration project. Consequently, they're shifting their activism, away from utopian escapism in Nature, towards mutual-self-help on Main Street. The Age of the Protective Corporation is at hand; as the V1, forced by surrounding events, intervenes in the mainstream social-economic war.