> is a total economic crashout that occurs when cash flow from shaking down the post-GenX middle class becomes too low.
Won't be a problem. Whole the lower classes may eventually be forced to massively decrease their consumption, the trend seems to be the growing wealth of the upper classes more than males up to sustain it.
I've even heard about certain industries completely abandoning their traditional, middle class clientele to chase a smaller, higher class that can offer truly absurd numbers worth of spending, more than making up for the peons left behind.
The real problems they'll face will be massive social unrest and violence, but there are a number of companies working on dragnet surveillance technologies and autonomous weapons, so that will be less of a concern. Plus, the new lords started building their castles years ago at this point.
Won't be a problem. Whole the lower classes may eventually be forced to massively decrease their consumption, the trend seems to be the growing wealth of the upper classes more than males up to sustain it.
I've even heard about certain industries completely abandoning their traditional, middle class clientele to chase a smaller, higher class that can offer truly absurd numbers worth of spending, more than making up for the peons left behind.
The real problems they'll face will be massive social unrest and violence, but there are a number of companies working on dragnet surveillance technologies and autonomous weapons, so that will be less of a concern. Plus, the new lords started building their castles years ago at this point.