Comment by gorgoiler

Extinction will come not with a bang but with a whimper. The boundary of the burgeoning poor — already at two nines — will expand to include pretty much everyone, and that underclass will dominate society to the detriment of everything in the commons: culture, civility, affordable food, education, thinking.

Western culture devolves into poor, corrupt, violent, petty criminality. Welcome to Mega Cairo.