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Ok_Garden_1877 t1_jad24xj wrote

> and the union leader answers "no, i'm woundering with what money are they going to buy your cars."

Totally agree with this point. Everyone keeps screaming "Dey tooker jerbs!" but the market simply won't allow it in the big bang everyone's expecting.

Do I believe many jobs today won't exist in a few decades? Absolutely.

But Rome wasn't built in a day. Nor was it destroyed in a day...

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RabidHexley t1_jaef09w wrote

>Everyone keeps screaming "Dey tooker jerbs!" but the market simply won't allow it in the big bang everyone's expecting.

This is the thing that gets me. Societal/economic collapse isn't some fun thing the rich can just "ride out" by hoarding their imaginary pennies.

One thing I also feel people don't necessarily discuss; rich people and the "elites" in power don't necessarily want to live in a dystopian hellscape either, despite their greed. A thriving population creates a world that you actually want to live in. There are forces of self-interest that work in our favor, not just altruism.

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FomalhautCalliclea OP t1_jaepa7r wrote

Well put (same for the comment above).

People that think that rich people can ride the collapse remind me of some XVIIIth century economists that would make "robinsonnades", meaning that they would create fictional stories that sound like Robinson Crusoe, with economical agents starting in a non existing pure land with no previous inhabitant, out of nothingness, completely ignoring social structures, anthropology, etc.

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