First ask,
"Is democracy a viable government only when a country gets near the top of the food chain with a highly educated work force and a large professional class?"
In the living world, every form of life is food for another. Food chains show how food and energy are passed between species. The working class could be considered an example of a food chain. In the food chain you have producers and consumers just as in the labor force. The producers in the food chain supply the food that supports the other species in the chain. …
