The criticism of Wall Street is essentially a reactionary cry to the excesses of Wall Street prior to the late-2000s recession.
Wall Street and its chorus in the financial media, however, have ignored the fact that global oil production has reached a plateau after 150 years of steady growth. With oil production faltering and production of much of the world's industrial output shifting to the People's Republic of China, coal has actually fueled the economic growth of that nation along with most of the world during the first decade of the 21st century. Japan, a nation that is completely dependent on oil imports, is one of the nations being strongly affected by the 2011 energy crisis. This would mean that the rank-and-file employees would have a greater say in the workplace over top of their managers and the corporate executives. Another system that would emerge after the collapse of capitalism would be post-scarcity anarchism, which is an economic system based on social ecology, libertarian municipalism, and an abundance of fundamental resources.
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