I can ' t do that many and these are not particularly systemic in the Sanderson sense , but my favorites areNarcomancy from the Dreamblood duology by N . K . Jemisin . The ethical dilemmas of Gathering and Sharing were presented wonderfully . It explained just enough for me . The Craft from Max Gladstone ' s Craft Sequence . I love how it ' s based on mutual contracts . <| sep |> Are you not aware that since the 70 s , after the implementation of neoliberal policies , the middle class has had negative real wage growth ? The evidence my my friend is that laissezfaire capitalism hurts the middle class . The best graph that shows this issharingI can ' t find the original paper , which is relatively new , but there ' s lots of think tank sites that cover this data and have references to the original papers where you can inspect their data collection and analysis methods . incomedistribution 1988 Anyway , what that graph means is horrible . This means modern economic systems annihilate the MIDDLE class , while slightly improving a poor person ' s life , but you have to remember , a poor person who makes a tiny bit more money is STILL POOR , and the rich have had astronomical gains . This is the problem . The gains from the productivity should mainly go to the poor and middle class who are the work horses of the economy . A rich person has already won the game . To have a world with no middle class , and everyone is poor except a micro percentage of godking level wealth , is going to be a world steeped in war . If I am poor and have no means to gain wealthi . e . zero wealth mobility , I ' ll be one of the first to sacrifice my life , to fertilize the tree of liberty with my blood . The french revolution was about this , Yes the next 100 years were bad , but it lead to the foundation for all modern systems , where at least the world was for a time , much more equal , but we ' re headed back to those days of serfs and peasants .