I think it is completely pointless for any of us to ask any questions about our collective futures. What will happen will be Calvinball. A smidgen of it might by accident be good news to some of us sometimes briefly. Most of it will be a burden, but not a disaster. Some of it will be a disaster to some of us.
But any attempt to apply historical precedent or even logical thought about what would benefit the oligarchs soon to own us all is doomed to failure. There are times the near future is dimly visible as a rough continuation of the recent past. The next 4 or 20 years will not be those times.
All we can do is wait and watch our history unfold. They say happiness is the congruence of expectation and reality. By avoiding having any expectations whatsoever I believe we each will maximize our opportunity to survive the trials ahead. Expecting the best leads only to disappointment and expecting the worst leads only to suffering twice: once in the contemplation of your prediction, then a second time when something else, unexpected but similarly bad, actually happens.
I spent much of my working career in exactly this state when my major corporate employer was bought by a robber baron and systematically dismembered over 15 years. Then a second time when the bit of corporate flotsam I was clinging to was bought by another entity who once again treated us as a playtoy, a la cat vs mouse. Any and every attempt to predict our collective futures as employees proved harmful to the psyche of those making predictions.
This lesson is also taught in hostage survival training. And that’s about what all Americans are about to become: hostages.
YMMV of course, but that’s how I’m handling at least the near future. Ask me again in a year and I’ll update my approach.