# Late Stage Capitalism

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-stage-capitalism/1012725>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 8, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-stage-capitalism/1012725 "2025-01-08T12:53:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-stage-capitalism/1012725/161 "2025-01-22T19:06:41Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> I think what I find disturbing and depression is the extent that people seem to be celebrating this new reality. Probably because it’s easy and convenient.

For those older of us who already have enough capital to live on it surely is easy & convenient, and what do we care of a “little” unemployment or angry proles? At least until the major societal disruption starts.

For those younger and/or with little or no capital, the prospect of vast unemployment and/or a wage race to the bottom against the marginal cost of an AI occurring during their own working years is terrifying. And rightly so.

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