the increasing shares of profits in national income are accompanied by growing consumption. One line of attack has been launched from the position that the polarization of classes, hark back to the nineteenth century, is no longer relevant. The categories shade into each other. The typology of groups in the contemporary economy has to be reframed (Dünhaupt 2013; Kim et al. 2014; Setterfield and Kim 2014; Taylor 2014).