“Fail” or “Succeed” is based on your perspective.
Capitalism won’t fail. It’s a great success to the rich who get richer by manipulating it.
Capitalism is a success, just not for us or anyone we know.
The 1% don’t give a shit about that. If they did it wouldn’t be an issue in the first place.
Yes but capitalism depends on the working class to continue consuming. As that becomes increasingly more difficult and also natural resources are depleting, the system is going to collapse
It doesn’t fail. It succeeds horribly.
It also fails, though. It’s unsustainable, Capitalists sew the seeds of their own downfall. They just hope they enjoy the ride and pass the buck off to someone else.
Dunno. But fascism is what happens after it succeeds.
Europe Tribes?
The dystopian cyberpunk future William Gibson tried to warn us about.
Spoiler: We’re already living in it.
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.”
The sky the color of a TV tuned to a dead channel has never looked prettier though…
Watch Alita Battle Angel or Elysium.
Neo-feudalism, then the thinning of the herd once high levels of automation are achieved.
Population decreases are already happening in modernized, wealthy countries, no need to do anything there. The poorer ones will end up starving as the climate collapses, so that’s basically taken care of too. Population collapse isn’t always good, though, somebody has to buy the goods and services.
Lemmyreddit finds a new political/economic system to constantly be bitter at.
Anarchy, of the Mad Max variety because when capitalism finally fails, it’s gonna be because they completely destroyed the fucking world.
Reading the comments here reminds me of that Slavoj Žižek/ Fredric Jameson quote:
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
Why it’s so hard to imagine life after capitalism…
Depends on the place. A cycle of failures is a feature of capitalism, it’s the opportunity for the next future failure to rise up and take charge. For great profit.
Lots of power struggles until one faction comes out on top (this includes subjugation and the equivalent of puppet states) or, less likely, those involved reach an agreement of coexistence.
Sometimes I think that humanity not breaking up into smaller groups after they passed a size of ~200 was a serious mistake.
If pop culture is to be believed, the country boys will go back to hunting and farming. At least until the diesel runs out. They’ll fight off the free loading hoards from the city looking for food until the ammunition runs out.
I love the dichotomy of hope and despair in this comment due to the false implication that they believe themselves to be bulletproof.
Society fragments into a bunch of smaller communities. Some will be relatively nice, some very much will not
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With the way things are going, a return to out and out fascism.
