A timeless and universal principle to keep in mind during this stage is that to be successful the system has to produce prosperity for most people, especially the large middle class. As Aristotle conveyed in Politics: “Those states are likely to be well-administered in which the middle class is large, and stronger if possible than both the other classes… where the middle class is large, there are least likely to be factions and dissensions… For when there is no middle class, and the poor are excessive in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.”
