Bellamy: On Society...

"... I cannot do better than to compare society as it then was to a prodigious coach which the masses of humanity were harnessed to and dragged toilsomely along a very hilly and sandy road. The driver was hunger, and permitted no lagging, though the pace was necessarily very slow..."

(From Looking Backward 2000 - 1887, Edward Bellamy)

Does this not remind you of anything current in our society?