It's all dependant on what type of people we are raising in our society. In todays societies, the focus more often than not is on making people into "consumers" rather than "producers", but in a rational society and a functioning economy as Rand pointed out, producers and consumers ought to be the same people.
Our current culture (our combined social system of education) teaches us from a young age, that the majority is and will never be able to rise above being "workers" and "consumers" and that the only thing we can do about it is to increase the political power those groups wield over the "employers" and "corporations". The cycle gets worse as you get to start working for "the man" and realize just how hard reality is even outside of the schools filled up with bullies and useless homework.
The same mentality is then perpetuated throughout all of society and nothing ever really changes unless someone is willing to break the pattern of strikes/tax evasion and colluding for higher salaries/subsidies, to in fact invent a whole new market place where new ideas can be aired, tried and adopted based on their own merits.
This isn't really a new thing though. That's why some of the traditional Anarchists (unlike me, who is an Anarcho-Capitalist), while I disagree with their political theory and many of the causes they identify, make some very valid points. This is what keeps happening again and again throughout history and we have yet to invent better ways that will help us not to fall into the same trap all over again.
Long ponder/rant there. But this is why I'm so enthusiastic about Cooperative Agorism; Outbuilding the current system that's built on the states power of conscription. Not simply tearing it down in a reactonary manner, thus just destroying the good that's still there and creating a power vaccum to be filled again, but to actually make those supporting institutions that we would want to replace with peaceful alternatives, and that we would want to see in a future free society, anew.
/Thomas Hägg
/ Thank you , I would add nothing so you have made a great point.
Now only to translate this in the real world :)
Thank you. That's what we're working on here =)