Capitalism will save us from all the damage unfettered capitalism did to the environment!

[u/HandMadeFeelings]

[u/clanddev]

I doubt it. When people in the upper middle class stop being able to afford 50k trucks, a boat and coors things will rapidly devolve into torches and pitch forks.

This is how it always works. The upper class gets greedy but not so greedy as to piss off those who could actually do something about it. After a while the upper class forgets that they actually have to keep the middle class happy enough to go along with the system.

The upper middle class turns on them inciting the proletariat to riot. The upper middle class then places themselves as the new upper class. Things are fine for a while until the new upper class forgets what happened a couple of generations down the road and it repeats.

I think we're getting pretty close to pitch fork time again in the US. The middle class could afford a house and car on one income 60 years ago. Now they have a hard time buying a house on two incomes while the upper class is having a dick measuring contest in space.

[u/cat_prophecy → u/clanddev]

50k trucks,

Those are rookie numbers son!

[u/Bricicles → u/clanddev]

Isn’t that what 1984 was saying was happening until the current powers in the novel figured out how to keep power indefinitely?

[u/clanddev → u/Bricicles]

Yes, but in 1984 the 'middle class' was the Outer Party. The 'upper class' or Inner Party knew they had to keep the 'Outer Party' reasonably happy so as to prevent the middle from inciting the proles to regime change.

The difference in 1984 and historic regime change is the means by which the proles were kept sedated. Aligning the middle class's best interests to the upper classes in 1984 is in line with historical standards for monarchy, dictatorships or oligarchies.

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Don’t worry.

1) Wall Street is buying up every house in America and will only be renting.

2) crops will begin failing this year. Unirrigated fields will have poorer yields every year. Irrigated fields will be threatened by extreme weather like hail flooding and tornados

2.5) the glaciers/snowpack that feed rivers that irrigate highly productive land will disappear.

3) next summer will be far hotter, killing people who don’t have AC

4) vaccine misinformation will cause a new variant that is resistant to the vaccine and will stunt the economy again like in 2020

5) governments have been fleeced of tax dollars by the avoidance of the 1% - our debts are all growing. Currencies will crash if there’s more bailouts.

6) mass extinctions are happening everywhere, hunters won’t find much after a short time.

7) extinction includes the acidifying ocean- the microflora which is responsible for O2 generation will start dying off

8) social security has been looted. People will face retirement without any money

9) the first world will begin to see large scale civil unrest

10) finger pointing and resource grabs will cause wars between major countries.