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The whole economy reminds me more and more of the decline of the Roman Empire. Their biggest problem was that there were no consumers left to keep money in circulation and the economy afloat. You either owned lots of land and slaves that provided pretty much everything you need or you were a slave, meaning the only one you could trade with were merchants from outside the empire but as the empire expanded, those became harder to reach. War expenses spiraled out of control while the economy declined until it ceased to exist.
Now mega corps only trade with each other and threaten to replace all workers with AI and robots. Meanwhile the economy becomes stale, people buy less while politicians around the globe cut down the social sector, meaning people will have even less money to spare. Money won‘t circulate as much, slowing things down even further.
There are ways out of this spiral of decline but billionaires won‘t give up so easily. You can say many things about them but they are persistent as hell.
That persistence is a type of sociopathy, though. It's an antisocial personality disorder. Sure, they're persistent, but they're persistent at pursuing absolutely terrible things for personal gain that effectively means nothing considering they already have enough power and money to make Solomon blush. It's a mental disorder where they need more and more and more while they have more than they could ever use in their entire lifetimes and in their grandchildren's their grandchildren's lifetimes.
So even that is honestly a negative thing, there's literally not a positive thing you can say about them, because everything they do is couched in being the most selfish, proud (for no good reason), and narcissistic fuckers alive.
Oh I never ever intended to imply it‘s a good thing. It just is. They won‘t give in or can be reasoned with. They became billionaires because they care about money, status and power.