Psychoeconomics: globalization, markets, crisis - стр. 37

Hence, in these countries the battle between the part of the elite that is oriented toward the compradore bourgeoisie and that part that is oriented toward the national bourgeoisie will grow. And we know from history that the beginning of the fight within the elite leads to the growth of a social struggle, to protest actions of the populace. And in the conditions of globalization, such a struggle will increase the growth of the social division of labor.

3.2. Globalization as a factor in synchronization of protest moods: the key to understanding the present in the past

Historical events related to the mass relocation of people that are strong, distinguished, aspiring to wealth and status but without a way to obtain this at a given point in the country they were born in (due to a limited amount of land, inheritance rights that were passed primarily to the first sons, etc.) have arisen with remarkable periodicity, with the appearance of each new generation prior to creating an economic mechanism for transferring the activity of these people into the economic stream.

That is, before the advent of capitalism. Globalization makes its own adjustments to these processes.

History teaches us that periodically, when discontented but strong and goal-oriented personalities accumulate at the bottom of the social structure of society, they are gotten rid of or advance through social mobility into the upper layers of society. If this does not occur, there are wars, revolutions, rebellions, or changes in power…

Situations have occurred periodically in Europe where some people concentrated at the bottom of the social ladder were ready to do a great deal to increase their status and attain wealth or property through their own efforts and abilities. In practically all European countries in the Middle Ages there was a law whereby land and property would be inherited by the oldest son, while the middle and youngest sons were forced to serve the king or enter a monastery or a religious military order like the Knights Templar, the Hospitallers, etc. With time, the number of ambitious knights, simple people without property, became dangerously large for the secular authorities. Among these people were many who were not inferior to the elite in terms of their own abilities and ambitions, and in fact may have been superior once the third-generation elites came into power. But this is a death sentence, so to speak, for the third-generation elite in a specific country, and the example that raises the question about accepted laws and governance in other countries. What could be done? Either weaken and even fight against the imperious orders, whose members had nothing to lose, even as their militancy grew, or else find a way to appease them. The ingenuity of thought and policy on the part of the ruling class in history was quite sophisticated in this respect.