The last thing Thomas Jefferson wrote was "the palpable truth (is), that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god.”
Jefferson
was speaking theoretically and he was speaking before industrial
commerce changed the world. He was saying that god didn't create the
hereditary top social classes, humans did.
Only in America has society, inadvertently, unconsciously thrown off the 'favored few (born) booted and spurred'.
Therein lies the problem. On most of the planet, the hereditary elite still rule their worlds. The society underneath these elites have a well stored up antagonism to the hereditary elite, made more egregious and antagonistic by the living example of America. They also have a justifiable antagonism toward business and corporations that unwittingly perpetuate this hereditary elite. I say unwittingly because business would do better if the hereditary elites didn't self perpetuate in top management, but business survives with these less-than-competent people around.
So the justifiable hostility towards the hereditary elites in the world, is misdirected at hostility toward commerce because commerce doesn't by itself destroy the hereditary elite system and blithely permits it to survive.
Global hostility to business is often the face mask of hostility towards the disgraceful hereditary elite.
