The Ageless and The Useless, page-7

''Eventually the social security system will fail and the tax system will be utterly inadequate. A system not dissimilar to that envisaged in the book 1984 is very possible. The teaming masses will be left to fend as best they can and gated communities will cater for the fortunate, if that's the right word. ''

That would mean the end of any resemblence of social order. The gated communities would represent a relatively small minority of the population and would be under constant siege.