The commodification of services is enhanced in advanced capitalist societies into the service economy. But Marx's prediction has not occurred. Social systems may take many hundreds of years to transform. In many countries captialism created a relatively prosperous and stable middle-class of employees dependent on the system.
Many foreign workers do menial, low-paying work in advanced capitalist countries.
Wealth, Prestiage and Power Weber agreed with Marx that economic factors are important in understanding individual and group behavior, but felt other factors are also important in defining a person's class location. Prestige-respect or regard with which a person or status position is regarded by others. Weber believed that people with common prestige level belonged to same class regardless of wealth. Occupation is a key source of prestige ranking.