To be honest, it is quite difficult to describe the "postindustrial" capitalism era. However, I will do my best. Basically, it is a much less industrialized and a much more educated system. There are far fewer manual laborers, and a vastly smaller lower-class. The lower-class is still existent, and there are plenty of people in it, however there is not the two distinct class systems of the industrial revolution. The lines of socio-economic class systems have been skewed because of the credit systems. For instance, in suburban America, there are plenty of people who most would presume to be well off. Now, if you look deeper what you will find is that there are plenty of people who technically, based on net value, are in the lower-class. This is surprising to some, because they think of suburban America as a midde/upper-middle class society. There are those people who live a lavish lifestyle, but who are in thousands of dollars of debt, without any way of repaying it. Our jobs did not all get shipped to China, and in fact if we as Americans got off of our lazy asses and actually tried to put some blood and sweat in as opposed to the entitled brats we all are, we would have a much lower unemployment rate.... there you go, I hope it helped
