The global warmists, Obama and the rest of the Marxists are moving aggressively to make sure that doesn't happen in the US. Carbon controls and radically higher energy costs will destroy the middle class and force dependency on big government if they have their way.
Big government enthusiasts should encourage the (IMO unstoppable anyway) move towards an economy of abundance.
In such a society, most people will be simply surplus to the economic system. I’ve tried to think of a way to distribute the goods produced by some mechanism other than an all-powerful government, but without a great deal of success.
The end result of such a system will probably be, ironically, to concentrate power in those few people still essential to running the system and in that somewhat larger number who will control the distribution of what it produces. That power may or may not necessarily correlate with the distribution of wealth.
I’d be thrilled if somebody has workable ideas whereby an economy of abundance distributes societal power as widely as it does “stuff,” but I’ve yet to see such ideas.