There is a certain dynamism and egalitarianism built into modern industrial society. For “Industrial society is the only society ever to live by and rely on sustained and perpetual growth, on an expected and continuous improvement,” (Ernest) Gellner writes. Indeed

Life in a modern, money economy… is characterized by ever greater distances between means and ends. Determining how to attain our ends is a matter of intellect, of calculation, weighing, comparing the various possible means to reach our goals most