Farewell, middle class
The consensus of the majority in a persistent conflict of economic interests of the labor and the capital through non-economic methods sustained the welfare state. Automation and robotics along with the predicted global economic slowdown leads to the crisis of the welfare state model. The compression of the middle class, this has been considered as the basis of democracy during of the 20th century, turns into a crisis of democracy. The radicalization of social inequality determined the contours of the future rental order. The legitimation of a new structure of society will easily be associated with the search of reduced democratic, or not democratic at all, grounds of the new political order, which has to dispense with the usual appeals to the middle class.